ck
The CK combination mostly gets pronounced as just a K with the C having no
voice.
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Thus check is pronounced a chek, peck as pek, mock as mok, and others.
Words Ending in AMB, IMB, OMB, and UMB
In all of these words the B is silent.
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These words include: lamb, jamb, climb, limb, bomb, comb, entomb, tomb, womb,
crumb, dumb, plumb, numb, rhumb, thumb, succumb.
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Also many of these that also add ER to the end such as dumber, the B is also
silent.
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However some exceptions to rule 2 above are limber and number where the B is not
silent.
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