occasional observations on English pronunciation features, phonetics, teaching and learning
lamb
Excellent, John!
Not knwoing that the 'b' in morpheme-final 'mb'-combinations is silent (numb, dumb, comb, ...) and additional German 'Auslautverhärtung' turns a lamb into a lamp.
lamb
ReplyDeleteExcellent, John!
DeleteNot knwoing that the 'b' in morpheme-final 'mb'-combinations is silent (numb, dumb, comb, ...) and additional German 'Auslautverhärtung' turns a lamb into a lamp.
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