English Consonants

You might have noticed from the alphabet that a lot of things have changed, like how there is 26 consonants instead of 21, or how there is now longer an f, y, c, or q.

It's quite simple once you learn what has changed. Also, for clarity I'm just using the capital letters.

Q, X, and C are not necessary as C can be replaced by K and S, Q by KW, and X by KS and Z.

The new X covers a different sound i will discuss in a different page.

F and Y are discarded for being shtinky because Impa.

Š, Ž, and Č are incredibly easy and useful ones, Š is the sh sound (sheep, shell), Č is the ch sound (church, chair), and Ž is a sound we have in English but don't have any letters representing it for some reason. It can be described as a zh or a jh sound, (measure, genre, garage, vision)

Three more to go, now we look at th. Th is used in two different sounds; one uses your voice box (there, them) and the other goes without (thorn, thing). Þ is used for the unvoiced and Ð is used for voiced. Fun fact, as printing presses arrived in England from continental Europe, they lacked the letter þ in their metal type sets. Printers substituted the visually similar letter Y, which is why the old spelling of "the" (þe) turned into "Ye" in signs like "Ye Olde Shoppe."

Last one, Ŋ (looks different than the one in the alphabet because of fonts but whatever) is used in place of ng, which believe it or not is its own sound (thing, singing, long).