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'''p''' is an unvoiced bilabilal stop, an unvoiced '''b''' (compare '''pén''' and '''Bén'''), a popping sound with the lips in the same position as '''b''' and '''m''' (as in '''mén'''). Examples (the accents show stress and pronunciation: see [[English phonemes]]): '''póp, pâper, plûral, pêople, pét, pépper, pénsion, ápt, flípped, câper, apàrt, stoôp, recoûp, groûp, bürp, hàrp, stóp, cóp, rôpe, hŷpe, tŷpe'''. | '''p''' is an unvoiced bilabilal stop, an unvoiced '''b''' (compare '''pén''' and '''Bén'''), a popping sound with the lips in the same position as '''b''' and '''m''' (as in '''mén'''). Examples (the accents show stress and pronunciation: see [[English phonemes]]): '''póp, pâper, plûral, pêople, pét, pépper, pénsion, ápt, flípped, câper, apàrt, stoôp, recoûp, groûp, bürp, hàrp, stóp, cóp, rôpe, hŷpe, tŷpe'''. | ||
p begins consonant clusters: ápfelstrudel, Dáphnê (-fn), aphrodísiac (-fr-), plús, apnoêa, présent, Épsom, ápt. | p begins consonant clusters: '''ápfelstrudel, Dáphnê''' (-fn), '''aphrodísiac''' (-fr-), '''plús, apnoêa, présent, Épsom, ápt'''. | ||
p is silent at the beginning of a word before n, s, t: pterodáctyl, pneumátic, pneumônia, pseûdonym, ptàrmigan, Ptómely and in recêipt, which rhymes with decêit. | p is silent at the beginning of a word before n, s, t: pterodáctyl, pneumátic, pneumônia, pseûdonym, ptàrmigan, Ptómely and in recêipt, which rhymes with decêit. | ||
Revision as of 12:39, 3 June 2008
P is the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet. Its name is pronounced like the vegetable pea.
Use in English
p is an unvoiced bilabilal stop, an unvoiced b (compare pén and Bén), a popping sound with the lips in the same position as b and m (as in mén). Examples (the accents show stress and pronunciation: see English phonemes): póp, pâper, plûral, pêople, pét, pépper, pénsion, ápt, flípped, câper, apàrt, stoôp, recoûp, groûp, bürp, hàrp, stóp, cóp, rôpe, hŷpe, tŷpe.
p begins consonant clusters: ápfelstrudel, Dáphnê (-fn), aphrodísiac (-fr-), plús, apnoêa, présent, Épsom, ápt.
p is silent at the beginning of a word before n, s, t: pterodáctyl, pneumátic, pneumônia, pseûdonym, ptàrmigan, Ptómely and in recêipt, which rhymes with decêit.
It doubles only in the middle, to shorten the preceding vowel: hópping (cf. hópped, hôped), flóppy (cf. flóp), snápped, háppy, háppen, náppy, rípper, cúpped, stépping, and after an initial vowel as in appŏrtion, appŏintment, apprôach, applŷ, opportûnity, úpper.
ph = f: Phílip, trôphy, phenómenon, grāph, apóstrophê, Philadélphia, phãraoh (-rô) but Stêphen = Stêven.
Before p, n becomes m: impŏrtant, cómpost, cf. -nf- in informâtion, confŏrm (which can be pronounced *ímformâtion, *comfŏrm).