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Answer by Judy D for Is the ‘t’ in ‘witch’ considered a silent t?
Perhaps a comedy answer but honestly, I’ve always thought that “which” has a missing “t” whereas “witch” is perfectly sensible as written. Nothing silent there.In my view , it’s the ones WITHOUT the...
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Some people pronounce "witch" the same as "which", that is, making the "t" silent. Others pronounce the "t", "witch".Your examples of words where "ch" makes a "tch" sound puzzle me. I and peole I speak...
View ArticleAnswer by LPH for Is the ‘t’ in ‘witch’ considered a silent t?
According to LPD (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 2008) the trigraph "tch" is regularly pronounced /tʃ/; this means that "tch" is not considered as t followed by "ch", and therefore there is no...
View ArticleAnswer by herisson for Is the ‘t’ in ‘witch’ considered a silent t?
There's no rigorous or official definition of what a "silent letter" is.The sound represented by the letters "tch" in "witch" is what linguists call an affricate. These are phonetically complex sounds...
View ArticleAnswer by FumbleFingers for Is the ‘t’ in ‘witch’ considered a silent t?
Apart from the fact that a few Americans still aspirate the /h/ in which (long gone in BrE), the full Oxford English Dictionary gives exactly the same pronunciations for both witch and which...which...
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I was under the impression that because ‘witch’ ends with a /tʃ/ sound, the ‘t’ is not silent but directly represents an essential element of the pronunciation.However, a word game (the New York Times...
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