Pronunciation: silent letters (learn English with pie)

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Don't forget that there is also a difference between US and UK English. It's not that one is right and one is wrong, they're just different.

FAIL. 2 Words you do pronouce the letter

FAIL. "pronouce" is not a word. I'm not sure whether it is a rule but when writing English prose, numbers under ten are generally spelt as words (eg two) and numbers over ten as digits (eg 11).

when I say wednesday i pronounce the d

I do too. The guidelines are for how most native speakers pronounce the letters, as everyone pronounces words differently to everyone else. 'Received' pronunciation used to be the 'correct' way but nowadays I don't think there is a correct way to pronounce any word - just as long as you are understood.

talk is not a silent letter word otherwise it would be tak

You are quite right that the letter 'l' makes the 'a' vowel longer in this word. This is the same as 'r' in 'fork', otherwise we would say 'fok'. However, 'talk' and 'fork' rhyme because we do not say the letters 'l' or 'r', they are silent. ('Talc' is an example of pronouncing the 'l')

'fork' and 'talk' don't rhyme if you say them properly - like we do in Scotland.

Thank you for all your comments - very much appreciated!