While some letters make their words easy to find, like the letter D with all of its delightful and disturbing words, there are letters that change their sounds depending on the arrangement of letters with them in the word. C is one of those letters (with a kah sound start like candy, a cha sound like challenge and a sh sound like chateau). G is another changing letter.
The majority of G words use the hard G sound like gross, groovy, and gift. “Good golly Miss Molly, Gary got a gun!”
The next largest group of G words use the soft G sound which seems more like J: giraffe, general, generic, etc. “In Georgia, the General Gerald and his wife Georgina own a giant giraffe named Giselle.”
The smallest G word group is the N sound, making the G silent: gnash, gnat, gnaw. “The gnawing gnat makes me gnash my teeth.”
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