Do you pronounce the B in lamb?
B. Most silent b’s come at the ends of words and just after m: bomb, climb, comb, crumb, dumb, lamb, limb, numb, plumb, thumb, tomb.
How do you pronounce lamb?
Do you pronounce the L in Almond?
A: The “l” in “almond” was silent until very recently. More recent standard dictionaries say we can now properly pronounce “almond” either with or without the “l” sound.
Which word is silent in lamb?
Silent b is introduced in the word ‘lamb‘. To help remember this silent letter, there is a story of how the word was originally spelt – lambaz – in old Germanic. Over time the ‘baz’ at the end of the word was dropped from the pronunciation but the ‘b’ remained in the spelling of the word.