Weekly English Words with Alisha Words with Weird Silent Letters
Welcome back to weekly words, my name is Alisha,
and today we’re going to talk about words
with weird silent letters. I like the title
of this one, let’s get started!
The first word is “pterodactyl”
Pterodactyl is a dinosaur, this is a flying
dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period. I
totally knew that on my own. pterodactyl begins
with a P but we don’t say that P, it just
starts with the T sound. In a sentence, you
might say “the pterodactyl is my favorite
dinosaur.”
Next word is “mortgage”.
I, my students messed up that word, mortgage,
like last week in class. Mortgage has at T
and it but we don’t say the T, it sounds like
“mor-gage” like there’s no T at all. A
mortgage is and the payment that you make
on your house every month if, if you’ve had
to take a loan from a bank.
In a sentence “my mortgage payments are
very reasonable.” I hope.
The next word is “aisle”.
Aisle is a weird word, so yes, there’s an
S in the word aisle, but it is not pronounced
“ai-s-lay”, it’s pronounced aisle. Aisle
with an A in front, is the space between
rows of seats on an airplane, for example,
or the space between shelves in a supermarket,
any is for a pathway
is an aisle. In a sentence, “please keep
your feet out of the aisle on the airplane
because the cart might bump you.”
The next word is “faux”.
It has an X at the end when it’s spelled
on paper but we do not say fau-x, fa-ux, we
don’t say that. We say faux; faux means fake,
faux means something that’s not real. Very
commonly you’ll hear this in terms of “faux
fur” as in “I prefer to wear faux fur
because I don’t believe that we should kill
animals.”
All right, the next one is “asthma”
We’re just talking about how I have asthma!
Asthma is spelled very weirdly, there’s a
TH in there but we do not say the TH, it’s,
it sounds like ASMA, asthma. Asthma is a respiratory
condition, you might have asthma it’s very
common, where it might be difficult for you
to breath sometimes, you need to take medicine.
In a sentence “I carry my inhaler everywhere
because I have asthma.”
And that’s the end of words that have weird
silent letters! So be careful when you come
across these in writing because they may sound
a little bit different know if they’re still.
Thanks again for watching weekly word this
week we will be back with more fun stuff next
time, take care. Bye!
I don’t know how to end this.