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Blue_true

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33. I don't remember the rule,

Thu Jan 21, 2021, 09:09 PM

Jan 2021

but I believe that a letter is silent only if a vowel follows a vowel. For example Phoenix is pronounced “Phenix”. If I remember correctly, the rules for a consonant following a consonant or a consonant-vowel pairing are a lot more complex, depending upon what the combination is. Maybe some of the English majors here can weigh in.

I looked it up, as I expected, it is more complex and also depend upon where (region of the world) a person is.

I believe her last name is pronounced “zacki”. The PS being together followed by a vowel need to be pronounced as another letter, in this case the “PS” becomes “Z”.

If any English majors weigh in, go easy on me, I have been out of corporate America for a while in the South, so most names here are easier to pronounce due to most being English, Spanish or simple German.

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