How can I say shy?
What means shy?
1 : easily frightened : timid. 2 : disposed to avoid a person or thing publicity shy. 3 : hesitant in committing oneself : circumspect. 4 : sensitively diffident or retiring : reserved also : expressive of such a state or nature a shy smile.
Is the H silent in huge?
When people do it, they aren’t just randomly or lazily leaving off a sound. This “h“-dropping occurs in a specific environment—only in words that start with a “hyu.” If they drop it in huge, they also drop it in humor, humid, humiliation, humongous, and Hugh.
Is the T silent in exactly?
In practice, yes it is virtually silent unless one makes a special effort to pronounce it. When we have a consonant cluster here /ktl/ one sound is often not heard. The linguistice term for it is “dissimilation”.