Break ‘cookie’ down into sounds: [KUUK] + [EE] – say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.

Biscuit (UK) / Cookie (US) In the US, cookies are flat, round snacks made of sweet dough. In the UK, these are generally called biscuits, although people do call the bigger, softer kind cookies, too.

In the word ‘sandwich’, if you looked that up in the dictionary, you WOULD see the D sound. But it’s actually never pronounced that way. But ‘Sandwich’, the dictionary does say D but it hasn’t caught up with the actual habits of how we speak.

Is the “s” or “c” silent in scent? The answer is: neither is silent. They work together as a digraph in the word scent to create the /s/ sound. Some may argue that the “c” is silent because you only hear the /s/ sound, but because “c” always makes an /s/ sound before an “e,” it’s not silent in scent.

An unpronounced ‘w’ is most commonly followed by the letter ‘r’ (wrap, wrist, wrestle, write, wring). These words usually refer to twisting or distorting. The ‘w’ is also unpronounced in the word ‘two’. This word comes from the Old English ‘twa’ and twegen (then twain), in which the ‘w’ was pronounced.

Words That Begin With W

• wab.
• wad.
• wae.
• wag.
• wan.
• wap.
• war.
• was.

In the west of The Netherlands (Amsterdam), v (in standard Dutch /v/) is usually pronounced as /f/, z (in standard Dutch /z/) is usually pronounced as /s/, and g (in standard Dutch /ɣ/) is usually pronounced as /x/.

English speakers can understand some words in dutch, as simple as “thank you” and “you’re welcome”. The average english speaker doesn’t understand much more than that. We can’t. I can read Dutch up to a point, but that’s because I know German and Old Norse.

They are disciplined, conservative, and pay attention to the smallest details. They see themselves as thrifty, hardworking, practical and well organized. They place high value on cleanliness and neatness. At the same time, the Dutch are very private people.