Mirrors on. A consonant blend is when two or more letters come together at the beginning or end of a word. Consonant blends glide together. But you still hear all sounds. Mirrors off.

Swear words lack the consonant sounds l, r, w and y across several languages – including Chinese, English and Spanish, according to a new study from researchers at Royal Holloway, University of ...

Tim In fluent English, when one word ends in a consonant sound and the next word begins in a vowel sound, we link the two sounds together without a pause in between them. So, an egg becomes anegg.

Consonant clusters are important to know about because if you miss a sound or say the wrong sound, you might say another word, and people might not be able to understand you.

We argue against the prevailing view that metathesis is somehow less natural phonetically than other processes and distinguished by a relatively greater phonological motivation. We survey cases of ...