Hi everyone it's Jennifer with your question of the week!
This is more of a spelling tip this week and of course we'll talk about
how to pronounce the sound, but the question revolves around the letters c
h and how do we know how they are pronounced. So let's go ahead and take a look. Okay so we have
two letters typically these two letters stand for one sound and that's the ch sound or the ch.
So to make that ch sound what you're going to do is you're going to touch the tip of
your tongue to the back of your top front teeth and then the tongue pulls back for the ch ch/
You can see my lips are slightly rounded and we see this in words like cheese and much.
So again this is the default pattern.
We have two exceptions for you. We have the k sound and this is in words
that are more greek in derivation and again two letters are going to be one sound the K. To make
a k sound tip of the tongue is low in the mouth back of the tongue is pull up air just puffs out
and we see this pattern and the word chemistry stomach and school.
And then last we have these two letters ch pronounced as the
sh sound the s h sound again typically two letters accounting for one sound for this sound your lips
are rounded your tongue is not touching your teeth and the air just continues to move out.
We see this in words again typically a french derivation
in words like champagne and machine and mustache.
So again we have three ways to pronounce the letters c h
The overarching general rule is we're going
to pronounce this as CH and we see that in words like cheese and much
and we can also pronounce them like a k sound when they're in more of a word that comes from
greek and we would see that in chemistry stomach and school
and then last sometimes we pronounce these letters as an sh
in champagne machine and chicago my state my hometown i'm sorry um
and the reason we do this is because those are more french in derivation
So give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful we'd love
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