Short vowels are vowel sounds that are pronounced in a short form. They can be compared with long vowel sounds. The word ‘ship’ has a short /i/ sound, whilst the equivalent long sound /i:/ produces the word ‘sheep’.

French is based on the Latin alphabet (also called the Roman alphabet), and there are twenty-six (26) letters….Letters and Pronunciation.

The /k/ sound is made through the mouth and it is Unvoiced which means that you don’t use your vocal chords to make the sound. It is defined by position of your tongue and it is a stop sound, which is a sound made by building up air pressure by stopping air flow and then releasing it.

Soft ⟨k⟩ is typically a palatal [ç] or an alveolo-palatal [ɕ], and occurs before not only ⟨i⟩, ⟨e⟩ and ⟨y⟩, but also ⟨j⟩, ⟨ä⟩, and ⟨ö⟩. Another similar system with hard and soft ⟨k⟩ is found in Faroese with the hard ⟨k⟩ being /kʰ/ and the soft being /t͡ʃʰ/, and Turkish where the soft ⟨k⟩ is /c/.

-ed at the end of a word signals something has happened in the past.

The past tense refers to things that happened in the past. To make the past tense of regular verbs, the ending -ed is added to the infinitive (‘I asked her a question’). The present participle refers to things that are still happening.

Yes, ed is in the scrabble dictionary.

Basic Suffix Spelling Rules. Suffixes are added to the end of words to make new words. Vowel suffixes include endings such as -ed, -er,-es, -end, and -ing. Consonant suffixes include endings such as -s, -less, -ness, -ment, and -ly.

Think of the word jumped. It is more difficult than to pronounce the suffix -‐ed as the voiced sound /d/ in jumped than to pronounce the suffix as /d/’s unvoiced partner /t/. The suffix -‐ed is naturally pronounced by most people as the unvoiced /t/ for a base word that ends with any unvoiced consonant sound.

(noun-forming suffix) Originally, it was probably a diminutive suffix. In this sense, it is no longer productive. It can be found in place names, given names, and a few other words. (verb-forming suffix) A frequentative suffix or denoting the beginning of a process.

1) If the root word ends in a voiced sound (other than /d/), the [-ed] ending is pronounced (cued) /d/….-ed Words.

If the word before ‘ed’ ends in the sounds ‘p’, ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘k’, then ‘ed’ is pronounced ‘t’: So: ‘p’ stopped. ‘f’ laughed. ‘s’ promised….The three ways are:

1. 1: ‘id’ (like in painted ‘paint-id’)
2. 2: ‘d’ (like in ‘played’)
3. 3: ‘t’ (like in ‘hoped’)