What does patriarch mean?
1a : one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people Abraham was a patriarch of the Israelites. b : a man who is father or founder The newspaper patriarch celebrated his 90th birthday.
How do you pronounce this word Patriarchs?
Is the T silent in exactly?
When the T and D sounds come between two other consonant sounds, many Americans will drop them. But when we add the -ly ending, it now comes between two consonants. You’ll hear a lot of native speakers say ‘exactly‘, with no T sound. Exactly, exactly.