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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 :
The "soft" c may represent the / ʃ / sound in the digraph ci when this precedes a vowel, as in the words 'delicious' and 'appreciate', and also in the word "ocean" and its derivatives. The digraph ch most commonly represents / tʃ / , but can also represent / k / (mainly in words of Greek origin) or / ʃ / (mainly in words of French origin).
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/.
C. Hard and soft C; The Chaos; Chinese respelling of the English alphabet; Cockney Alphabet; D. Deseret alphabet; English terms with diacritical marks; Spelling of ...
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 ...
Ch is a digraph in the Latin script.It is treated as a letter of its own in the Chamorro, Old Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Igbo, Uzbek, Quechua, Ladino, Guarani, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Ukrainian Latynka, and Belarusian Łacinka alphabets.
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Alternations of hard and soft consonants represent the most abundant type. They occur regularly in word-stem final consonants before certain suffixes (in derivations) and endings (in inflections). Hard consonants are softened if followed by soft /ɛ/ (written e/ě ), /ɪ/, or /iː/ (written i and í , not y and ý ).