In English a voiceless plosive that is p, t or k is aspirated whenever it stands as the only consonant at the beginning of the stressed syllable or of the first, stressed or unstressed, syllable in a word.

* Partial devoicing of sonorants – In English sonorants () are partially devoiced when they follow a voiceless sound within the same syllable.

* Partial devoicing of obstruents – In English, a voiced obstruent is partially devoiced next to a pause or next to a voiceless sound, inside a word or across its boundary.

All English consonants can be classified by a combination of these features, such as " voiceless alveolar stop ".

This tenuis voiceless sound exists in English — but never as an initial in a stressed syllable.

This Chinese phoneme is nearer to the pronunciation of English voiced unaspirated in Dow than the voiceless aspirated in Taos, but it is neither.

In Old English, ð ( referred to as ðæt by the Anglo-Saxons ) was used interchangeably with þ ( thorn ) to represent either voiced or voiceless dental fricatives.

An Old and Middle English letter has become a false friend in modern English: the letters thorn ( þ ) and eth ( ð ) were used interchangeably to represent voiced and voiceless dental fricatives now written in English as th ( as in " thick " and " the ").

* voiceless coronal sibilant, as in English sip

* voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant ( domed, partially palatalized ), as in English ship

* voiceless labiodental fricative, as in English fine

* voiceless dental fricative, as in English thing

* voiceless glottal transition, as in English hat

English has a voiceless glottal transition spelled " h ".

In English, the letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive ; this sound is also transcribed by in the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA.

Examples include English ( voiceless ) and ( voiced ).

Examples include English / f, s / ( voiceless ), / v, z / ( voiced ), etc.

Other marked characteristics of Newfoundland English include the loss of dental fricatives ( voiced and voiceless th sounds ) in many varieties of the dialect ( as in many other nonstandard varieties of English ); they are usually replaced with the closest voiced or voiceless alveolar stop ( t or d ).

In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

Armenian and Cantonese have aspiration that lasts about as long as English aspirated stops, in addition to unaspirated stops.

As he begins to ride toward the English, he stops and turns back to his troops.

See Neutralization and archiphonemes below, particularly the example of the occurrence of the three English nasals before stops.

Being " R-like " is an elusive and ambiguous concept phonetically and the same sounds that function as rhotics in some systems may pattern with fricatives, semivowels or even stops in others — for example, " tt " in American English " better " is often pronounced as alveolar tap, a rhotic consonant in many other languages.

In some English dialects, such as American and Australian, flaps do not function as rhotics but are realizations of intervocalic apical stops ( and, as in rider and butter ).

In English, for example, there are stops with no audible release, such as the in apt.

In Ancient Greek, stops were called áphōna ( stoicheîa ), which was translated into Latin as mūtae ( cōnsōnantēs ), and from there borrowed into English as mute.

In voiced stops, the vocal folds are set for voice before the release, and often vibrate during the entire hold, and in English, the voicing after release is not breathy.

In English, however, initial voiced stops like or may have no voicing during the period of occlusion, or the voicing may start shortly before the release and continue after release, though word-final stops tend to be fully voiced: In most dialects of English, the final g in the bag is likely to be fully voiced, while the initial b will only be voiced during part of its occlusion.

Italian is well known for its geminate stops, as the double t in the name Vittoria takes just as long to say as the ct does in English Victoria.

The closest examples in English are consonant clusters such as the in candy, but many languages have prenasalized stops that function phonologically as single consonants.

The most common distribution between bilabials and labiodentals is the English one, in which the stops,,, and, are bilabial and the fricatives,, and, are labiodental.

In native Indian languages ( except Tamil ), the distinction between aspirated and unaspirated plosives is phonemic, and the English stops are equated with the unaspirated rather than the aspirated phonemes of the local languages.

* The alveolar stops English, are often retroflex,, especially in the South of India.

This is very similar to English t, d, n, l, though the Australian t is not aspirated, though again here Kala Lagaw Ya is a notable exception, as all the stops are aspirated.

Because the tongue is " peeled " from the roof of the mouth from back to front during the release of these stops, there is a fair amount of frication, giving the ty something of the impression of the English palato-alveolar affricate ch or the Polish alveolo-palatal affricate ć.

* Many train stops are announced in both English and Japanese.

While his Australian accent is still discernible when he speaks English, he does so with unusual intonations and stops, the result of speaking Cantonese and Mandarin, in which he is fluent, for most of his adult life.

* Voiceless stops are not aspirated, unlike in Standard German and English.

Among the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature more than half are practically unknown to readers of English.

The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment: contrast the perceptual skill of English professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor cars, political candidates, or female beauty.

And yet the elements which capture his liberal and humanistic imagination are those which make the English story worth telling and worth remembering.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

Such manipulations are frequently encountered in his essay on the suppression of the monasteries during the English reformation.

Now the English are painfully silent about my missing hands.

And like this English master, Mason realizes his subjects in large, simplified masses which, though they seem effortless, are in reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them.

It is only fair to demand that teachers of courses in English, history, psychology and so on be as well informed in matters of art, especially interior design, as are the art teachers educated in the academic subjects.

One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

It omits, for example, practically the whole line of great nineteenth century English social critics, nearly all the great writers whose basic position is religious, and all those who are with more or less accuracy called Existentialists.

She found this a marvel because, as she said, only six per cent of English people are churchgoers.

Many English Catholics are proud of their Catholicism and know that they are in a new ascendancy.

I have found myself saying with other foreigners here that English Catholics are good Catholics.

The English saints are widely venerated, quite naturally, and now there is great hope that the Forty Martyrs and Cardinal Newman will soon be canonized.

For example, a writer in a recent number of The Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un-English ' ''.

the author possesses an uncommonly fine English style, and he is dealing with subjects of vast importance that are highly topical for our time.

Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.