How do you pronounce the word bring?
Is the T silent in exactly?
When the T and D sounds come between two other consonant sounds, many Americans will drop them. But when we add the -ly ending, it now comes between two consonants. You’ll hear a lot of native speakers say ‘exactly‘, with no T sound. Exactly, exactly.
Is the G silent in the word hanger?
hanger – the thing you hang your clothes on. This one is pronounced without a hard ‘g‘, i.e. ‘hang-er’ (in IPA /hæŋə/ or /hæŋəɹ/). hanger – portmanteau of hungry + anger; the anger one has because one is hungry.
Why is the L silent in Almond?
A: The “l” in “almond” was silent until very recently. Interestingly, the “l” didn’t appear in the first syllable of amandola, the medieval Latin word from which “almond” was derived, or in the earlier Latin amygdala, or in the still earlier Greek amygdale.