English Letters and their Sounds

There are 26 letters in English; but these 26 letters give 44 sounds. It means there is difference of 18 sounds as compared with the total number of letters.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz are 26 English Letters

aeiou are 5 English vowels.

bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz are 21English Consonants.

Letter "C"

1. C = /s/  as in city, cite, race, nice etc

2. C = /k/  as in clear, crown, school etc

3. C = /sh/ as in precious, ferocious etc

4. C = /ch/ as in chain, chair, chore etc

Similarly Letter "G"

1. G = /g/   as in strong, gear, go, green etc

2. G = /j/    as in strange, germ, village etc

3. G = /f/    as in laugh, rough, cough etc

4. G = silent 'g'   as in benign, reign, design, align etc

Similarly, there some sounds in English that are produced

/f/ Sound

1. /f/  = f    as in floor, flower, front etc

2. /f/  = ph as in phone,sephere, phonetics etc 

3. /f/  = gh  as in rough, paragraph, triumph etc

/sh/ Sound

1. /sh/ = sh as in shine, show, shirt etc

2. /sh/ = ci  as in gracious, delicious, conscious etc

3. /sh/ = ti  as in nation, action, initial etc