Consonants

<w> is always pronounced as /w/ when it occurs at the beginning of a syllable and before a vowel: well, water, will.
<h> is silent after <w> and before /a/ vowel (except ‘O’): when, why, what.
- <h> is silent in the beginning of some words. (hour, heir, honor, herb, homage, honest)
- <h> appears in a few consonant digraphs: <ch>, <gh>, <ph>, <th>, <sh> and <wh>
<b> is silent after <m> (bomb, climb, comb, crumb, dumb, lamb, limb, numb, plumb, thumb, tomb)
<g>
- <gh>
  - /g/ - ghetto /ˈgɛtoʊ/, ghost /goʊst/, and spaghetti /spəˈgɛti/
  - see <igh>
  - see <ough>
- <gn>
  - in the same syllable - <g> is silent - (gnaw, sign, foreign, campaign, design, assign, feign, reign)
  - in different syllables - <g> is /g/ - (signal, magnet, ignore)
<tu> becomes to /tʃ/ - (virtue, future, mature, mutual, nature, statue, ritual, fortunately)
<su> - becomes to /ʃ/ - (issue, sensual, pressure)
- /z/ before <u> becomes /ʒ/ (visual, usual, seizure, treasury)

<tr> becomes almost to /tʃr/ (travel, tradition, translate, traffic, , introduce, interest, extremely, terrific)
- <tur>, <ter> becomes almost to /tʃr/ (turn, turkey, terrific)
<dr> becomes almost to /dʒr/ (drink, drop, dream, drama, syndrome, children, address, cathedral, hundred, laundry)
<du> becomes almost to /dʒ/ (gradual, education, schedule, procedure, graduation, individual)
<dy> becomes almost to /dʒ/ (did you, could you, would you, should you)

`<c>`

IPA	Examples	Notes
`/s/`	cent, city, fancy	before `<i>`, `<e>` or `<y>`
`/k/`	can, come, cut	before `<a>`, `<o>` or `<u>`
	clean	before consonants
	music, public	At the end of words
`/ʃ/`	delicious, sufficient, special	before suffixes that start with `<i>`

IPA	Examples	Notes
`/ð/`	the, this, though	At the beginning of function words (articles, prepositions, pronouns, etc)
	bathe, breathe, soothe	between a vowel and a silent `<e>`
`/θ/`	think, third, theory	At the beginning of lexical words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and some adverbs)
	bath, path, truth	At the end of words

excaptions: clothes /kloʊz/, months /mʌnts/, Thomas /ˈtɑm·əs/, Thailand /ˈtaɪ·lænd/

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