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The hard c pronunciation occurs everywhere else [4] except in the letter combinations sc , ch , and sch which have distinct pronunciation rules. cc generally represents /ks/ before i e y , as in accident, succeed, and coccyx. There are exceptions to the general rules of hard and soft c :
In English orthography, c generally represents the "soft" value of / s / before the letters e (including the Latin-derived digraphs ae and oe , or the corresponding ligatures æ and œ ), i , and y , and a "hard" value of / k / before any other letters or at the end of a word.
In the word vague, e marks the long a sound, but u keeps the g hard rather than soft. Doubled consonants usually indicate that the preceding vowel is pronounced short. For example, the doubled t in batted indicates that the a is pronounced /æ/, while the single t of bated gives /eɪ/.
5 List of English words where C is pronounced exceptionally. 3 comments. 6 C and ch, c and k, c and qu. 4 comments. 7 Exception to the rule. ... 10 The terms "hard ...
There is consistency in Papiamento in terms of when a hard c is used instead of a k and when a soft c is used instead of an s . [clarification needed] Before the vowels a , o and u , a c is used instead of a k , e.g. cas ('house'), cos ('thing') and cushina ('kitchen') instead of kas, kos and kushina.
Half softly (i.e. moderately soft). See dynamics. mezzo-soprano A female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above middle C. Mezzo-sopranos generally have a darker vocal tone than sopranos, and their vocal range is between that of a soprano and that of a contralto. MG See main gauche minore Minor key
While c , which also has hard and soft pronunciations, exists alongside k (which always indicates a hard pronunciation), g has no analogous letter or letter combination which consistently indicates a hard g sound, even though English uses j consistently for the soft g sound (the rationale for the spelling change of "gaol" to "jail").
The consonant before the hard sign often becomes somewhat softened (palatalized) due to the following iotation. As a result, in the twentieth century there were occasional proposals to eliminate the hard sign altogether, and replace it with the soft sign ь, which always marks the softening of a consonant.