Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'. Unstressed vowels are vowel sounds that are hard to hear ...
For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are actually only ... Some of these sounds, or phones – yes, from Greek – are glides between two vowel sounds that in our heads we see ...