Need words with silent first letters

[FoBoT]

zNef


it means to post useless replies on internet forums

 

[TheNinja]

numbchucks is actually pronouced nun-chucks....the "b" is silent.

 

[HN]

ninja is silent








*ba dum....ching!*

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan

Originally posted by: phillydog

Originally posted by: Howard
"Tsunami" does not have a silent 't' when pronounced properly.

I was gonna point you you dictionary.com however, you are correct... there are 2 pronunciations, one as you suggested.... I guess add 'T' to the list.

Tsar

It should be Tzar

 

[phillydog]

Someone just gave me one for U which is:

Uitlander pronounced: (Ite-lander or Oit-lander)

 

[phillydog]

Someone gave me Zsolt (pronounced Jolt) and Uitlander (pronounced Ite-lander or Oit-lander)

Anyways.... still looking for words that begin with (but don't sound like) F, L, N, R, S, or V.

Help is always appreciated.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: phillydog

Originally posted by: Howard
"Tsunami" does not have a silent 't' when pronounced properly.

I was gonna point you you dictionary.com however, you are correct... there are 2 pronunciations, one as you suggested.... I guess add 'T' to the list.

There is no English "ts" sound.

When I was learning japanese I was told to pronounce it like "footsore". You get a "tsu" that way.
Tsu.
Na.
Mi.
Tsunami.

 

[yosuke188]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: phillydog

Originally posted by: Howard
"Tsunami" does not have a silent 't' when pronounced properly.

I was gonna point you you dictionary.com however, you are correct... there are 2 pronunciations, one as you suggested.... I guess add 'T' to the list.

There is no English "ts" sound.

When I was learning japanese I was told to pronounce it like "footsore". You get a "tsu" that way.
Tsu.
Na.
Mi.
Tsunami.

The "tsu" sound doesn't exist in English. In Japanese the "tsu" sound is usually represented as "tu", but that in English is pronounced like tulip.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Ilmater
Does anyone else find this to be an odd post for someone with .33 posts per day?

Llama... one of them is silent... might as well be the first one.

That's what I was thinking too.

 

[Pattycake]

There is no English "ts" sound.

That's not true.

 

[Pattycake]

The "tsu" sound doesn't exist in English. In Japanese the "tsu" sound is usually represented as "tu", but that in English is pronounced like tulip.

I think tha"t soo"ner or later you will see that you are wrong.

 

[Thebobo]

Gnome. Knight.

Played D&D?

 

[IronWing]

The lengths some folks will go to engage in an argument…

Pattycake, 90% of the people in this thread were eaten by wolves over a decade ago.

 

[Schfifty Five]

How have all of you not realized this is a necro thread?

 

[shortylickens]

pfizer

 

[snoopy7548]

Are you trying to create a non-phonetic alphabet?

http://weekendengineering.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-evil-non-phonetic-alphabet.html

Aisle
Bdellium
Czar
Djibouti
Euphrates
Fjord
Gnome
Herb
Isle
Jalapeno
Knee
Lladro
Mnemonic
Ngabu
Ouija Board
Pneumonia
Qatar
Rwanda
Sphygmomanometer
Tsunami
Uvula
Vraisemblance
Wrinkle
Xylophone
Ypsilanti
Zlotys

 

[IronWing]

Fjord

Huh? Every Norski I grew up with pronounced it fee-yord.