子音編⑦ [ｆ]
face, fact, fail, faint, fan, fast, feel, feminine, festival, fidelity, field, fight, file, fill, find, fine, fiscal, fish, five, fly, foam, fold, follow, fond, food, forget, form, foul, fountain, fundamental, fusion,
after, before, benefit, defend, define, draft, drift, gift, infinity, information, left, lift, loft, often, qualify, raft, refine, reform, safety, shaft, soft, terrify, twelfth, verify,
beef, calf, deaf, elf, golf, goof, gulf, half, knife, loaf, roof, safe, turf, wharf, wife, wolf,
affect, affiliate, afford, buffer, cliff, coffin, cuff, effect, efficient, effort, fifth, fifty, muffler, offend, offer, puff, sniff, suffer, suffocate, tariff, traffic, waffle,
この音は、下唇を上の前歯に軽く当てて空気を出すと出る無声音です。上唇を少し上に持ち上げると発音しやすくなります。
‘f’以外の綴りで[f]と発音する単語：
‘gh’ cough, enough, laugh, rough, tough,
参考① サイレントになる’gh’
→bought, bright, daughter, eight, fight, high, light, might, night, right, sight, thorough, through, though, weight,
参考② [g]音になる’gh’
→ ghastly, ghost, spaghetti,
‘ph’ alphabet, autograph, dolphin, elephant, graph, nephew, pharmacy, philosophy, ph(o)enix, phonetic, phonics, photo, phrase, physics, sapphire, sphere, symphony, telephone, triumph, trophy,
次回は、[v]です。
