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How is wl- pronounced? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange How is 'wl-' pronounced at the beginning of a word? Of course, you just don't pronounce it at all, because there is no English word that begins that way and if there were, well, that's just not English there can't be any
pronunciation - Silent w in words starting with wr- - English . . . Not My Field, so subject to correction: In Old English the “voiced labiovelar approximant” w was in fact pronounced in the initial clusters wr and wl Lass, Cambridge History of the English Language describes the loss of this pronunciation in the context of “Onset-cluster reduction” (III, page 122): Witch which, not knot, Nash gnash, rite write are homophones in most varieties of
phonetics - The ɪ sound vs the i sound - exact difference . . . The i sound is just the short version of i: ; without the ː length mark it is shorter Just as you can find i: in words like peat, the i sound is found in words like happiness where the vowel is shorter In epicentre, you can find an ɪ because, in many accents, such as the Cambridge Dictionary's main focus of BrE, it is not any sort of ee sound, but an ih sound, as found in hit
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