11.15 Silent consonants

En anglès no hi ha una correspondència estreta entre l'ortografia de les paraules i la seva pronunciació. Com a part d'aquest fenomen hi ha paraules, l'ortografia de les quals inclou una lletra que no es pronuncia o bé no es pronuncia com s'espera. Aquí hi ha una taula de les més freqüents:

Word	Silent consonant	Word	Silent consonant
bomb	b	chemist	h
climb	b	honest	h
comb	b	honour	h
debt	b	hour	h
doubt	b	mechanic	h
lamb	b	stomach	h
limb	b	technical	h
thumb	b	vehicle	h

assign	g
design	g	knee	k
foreign	g	knickers	k
resign	g	knife	k
sign	g	knock	k
		knot	k
although	gh	know	k
bright	gh
cough	gh	calm	l
daughter	gh	chalk	l
delight	gh	could	l
eight	gh	half	l
enough	gh	should	l
fight	gh	talk	l
flight	gh	walk	l
fright	gh	would	l
height	gh
high	gh	autumn	n
laugh	gh	column	n
light	gh	damn	n
might	gh
neighbour	gh
night	gh	receipt	p
ought	gh
right	gh
rough	gh	island	s
sigh	gh
sight	gh	castle	t
slight	gh	fasten	t
straight	gh	listen	T
thorough	gh	soften	T
thought	gh
through	gh	answer	w
tight	gh	sword	w
tough	gh	wrap	w
weigh	gh	wreck	w
		wrist	w
ache	h	write	w
anchor	h	wrong	w
character	h

Per a la pronunciació de la tercera persona del present simple, vegeu Table of present simple regular verb endings.