Silent consonants

These modal auxiliaries are pronounced as follows:

would

¹   [wood; unstressed wuhd]

could

   [kood; unstressed kuhd]

should

   [shood]

Don't pronounce the l in the following words

walk  [wawk]

talk  [tawk]

stalk  [stawk]

Be careful with the silent in

Island  [ahy-luhnd]

isle  [ahyl]

aisle  [ahyl]

There are words ending in -ough pronounced as of

tough  [tuhf]

cough  [kawf, kof]

enough  [ih-nuhf]