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PHONETICS- IV General Rules of Pronunciation

PRONUNCIATION  OF  “C” (1) When 'C' is followed by A,O,U,K & T, it is  pronounced as ‘K’ and When ‘C’ is preceded by a vowel it is pronounced as ‘K’ Example: A - Cat, Can, Camera, Cater, Cattle, Cake        O - Cock, Cot, Collect, Coke, Colon, Coach, Could, Count, Coat, Concern U - Cut, Custom, Cure, Culture, Custody, Customer K - Cock, Back, Sack, Rack, Crockery   T - Act ,Action, Fact, Pact, Practice, Duct (2) When word begins with ‘C’ and is followed by ‘E’, ‘I’, ‘Y’, it is pronounced as ‘S’ Example: E - Rice, Mice, Piece, Peace, Dice, Practice, Grocer, Celebrate I - Circle, Cinema, Citizen, Fascinate, Circus, Criticism, Y - Cycle, Cyclist, Cyclone, Cyst, Cyanide (3) When ‘C’ is followed by ‘IA’ or ‘EA’, it is pronounced as   ‘SH’ Example: IA - Social, Special, Specialty, Crucial, Financial EA - Ocean, Panacea, PRONUNCIATION  OF  “G” (1) When  a word ends with ‘GE’ or ‘GE’ is a part of a word, it   is pronounced  as ‘J’  and others ‘G’ Example: GE - Cage, Coinage, Cottage, Page, Wage, Merger, Mortgage, Religion, Lodge, Ginger, Germ,  Pigeon etc. (pronounced as 'J') GE - Finger, Give, God, Ground, Singer etc. (pronounced as 'G') Note: There are many exceptions to this rule. PRONUNCIATION  OF  “S” (1) When the  word  ends  with g, ge, gg,oe, ie ,ee and y, ‘s’  is  pronounced  as  ‘z’ Example: Songs, Eggs , Rupees, Boys,  Rays,  Toys  Heroes, Worries, Sees (2) When a word  ends with e, f, p,  pe, te, it  is pronounced as ‘s’ Example: Craps, Roofs, Proofs, Traps, Helps, Crops, Hopes, Pipes, Slopes, Kites, Shops, Jokes etc. (3) When a word with ‘s’ and ‘ss’ is followed by IA, ION, it is pronounced as ‘SH’ Example: Asian, Persian, Pension, Profession, Session, Mansion, Mission, Passion PRONUNCIATION  OF  “I” (1) When ‘T’ is followed by ia, ie, io, it is pronounced as ‘sh’ Example: Patient, Nation, Motion, Ration, Creation, Mention (2) When ‘S’ is followed by ‘TION’, ‘TIAN’ or ‘TURE’, it is pronounced as ‘CH’ Example: Christian, Question, Vulture, Culture, Future (3) When ‘T’ is  followed  by ‘H’ then it is pronounced as “TH” / “DH” Example: TH - Thirteen, Throw, Thrive , Three DH - This TH - That, Then ,There, Than WHEN CONSONANTS ARE SILENT In following words Consonants remains Silent Example: B - Doubt L - Chalk, Talk, Walk, Palm, Calm K - Know, Knowledge, Knife, Knight GH - Right, Light, Plight, Flight N - Column, Autumn, Solemn P - Psychology, Pneumonia, Pneumatic Word Building 01 Word Building 02 Word Building 03 Word Building 04