hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about
American English pronunciation are you ready let's begin
more on silent consonants the fourth video of 7w is silent in words that
begin with W R we have the two letters W are side by side at the beginning of a
word that W is silent so we're going to pronounce it which is the the R sound
row now W and are are both consonants both consonants the first word we're
going to look at right right in a previous video we talked about the word
right I said my left hand my right hand okay well now this is a different
spelling the same sound but a different spelling and a different meaning to
right so perhaps you take a pencil or a pen and you write something on a piece
of paper you write a letter you write a note whatever
WRI te take off the W RUP RUP ight right okay then we have ring ring now if you
just hear the word ring you might be thinking of RI ng perhaps you have a
ring on your finger perhaps you hear of of telephone ringing
but this is w RI ng it's the same sound ring because W is silent but it means
too for example if you're if you have a rag
a towel it gets wet you could twist it and you ring
out the water wring out the water we used to have washing machines that were
called wringer washing machines they had two big rollers on top of them and you'd
put the clothes through those roller rolling pins and it would wring out the
excess water on the old-style washing machines okay we have the word
wrong take away the W ruff ruff um Ong makes the on sound like ing is in so the
word mom well you have the right way to do things and you have the wrong way to
do things right maybe you've got someone very angry at
you because you said the wrong thing to them you made them angry or maybe you
took a test and you got too many of the answers wrong they were incorrect not
right they were wrong WR AP the take away the W rap our ap ruff app rap okay
now w AP rap would be like two who pound on something quickly you're rapping on
it you rap on it there's also rap music perhaps you like
the modern new rap music I don't WR AP okay now to rap you take some paper and
a box and you wrap the boxes and paper you wrapped it right you wrap something
in newspaper you wrap a package wreckage wreckage take away the W no sound well
the W is still going to be there but it's silent wreck cage wreck okay if
somebody drives their car boom into a tree or hits another car we might say
that they rap their car they wrecked it the car this
wreckage where's the wreckage after the accident is over the wreckage where is
it it's the damaged vehicle or wouldn't
have to be a car could be buildings after a storm that sort of thing
wreckage wrist wrist W the W is silent are RUP RUP i st this is pissed okay and
what is a wrist well this is my arm this is my hand this is my wrist where the
hand and arm meet that's called the wrist where your foot and leg come
together that's called ankle and ankle this is on
wrist this is a wrist watch because it's a watch worn on my wrist and that is the
end of this lesson thank you for watching this video and i
look forward to seeing you at our next lesson goodbye for now