Our next pair of consonant sounds are / ʃ / (voiceless) and / ʒ / (voiced). Let’s look at them individually.
/ ʃ / is the sound we make when we want to someone to whisper or to stop talking: “Shhhhhh!”. / ʃ / is found in words such as:
As you can see, it can be found at the beginning of words (shoe), the middle (station) or at the end (wish). Often it’s spelt with the letters ‘sh’ but sometimes we see it within words as ‘ti’ as well, such as in ‘station’ above. Here are some other examples of this:
There are other spellings of / ʃ / too:
Let’s move on to the sound / ʒ /. This is a voiced / ʃ / and mostly found in the middle of words in English:
However, it can also be found at the end of words borrowed from French, such as:
Now it’s over to you. How many words can you find in English with the sounds / ʃ / and / ʒ /? Please write them in the comments section below!
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