What is the meaning forbidden?
adjective. not allowed; prohibited: a forbidden food in his religion. Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers that is not permitted by the selection rules: forbidden transition.
Is the T silent in water?
It depends. The “t” in water and matter can be pronounced correctly a few different ways. Different dialects will pronounce the “t” as the the traditional letter T is pronounced /t/, but it is most commonly pronounced as an Alveolar flap , /ɾ/, and in some dialects you will here is glotallized as a Glottal stop /ʔ/.
Is the R silent in macabre?
Macabre is basically pronounced [makabʁ] in French, where /ʁ/ is a voiced uvular fricative. The closest sound in English is, of course, /ɹ/ (the “r” sound, hereafter written as r). So “macabre” in French is pronounced basically like [makab] followed by a fricative-ʁ sound, with no “e” vowel sound after it.