1. ENGLISH PRONOUNCIATION

2. Basic rule 1
AU is pronounced as “aw” (as in law ) which is pronounced as “o”
EXAMPLES
Astronaut
Applause
Auction
Pause
Auto

3. Basic rule 2 EUis pronounced as “ju” EXAMPLES Euclid Neuron Queuing
Europe

4. Basic rule 3
PN is pronounced as “n” and PS is pronounced as “s” (only if they are at the beginning of a word )
EXAMPLES
pneumatic (“nju matic”)
psychology ( “saicologi”)

5. Basic rule 5 KN at the beginning of a word is pronounced as “n”
EXAMPLES
Knot
Knee
Knight
To Know

6. Basic rule 6 W is usually not pronounced as V and viceversa
think about vest and west

7. Basic rule 7 SH is pronounce like the italian “sc” EXAMPLES Shower
Short
Shout
Fish

8. Often Mispronounced words
The words in brackets are there only to help pronounciation : they are NOT spelt correctly
Comfortable (‘conftabol’)
Subtle (‘ sa-dull’)
Chaos (‘keios”)
Area (“eria”)
Media (“midia”)
Genera (“jhon-ra”)
Said ( “sed”)
Parents (“perents”)
Headache (“ hedeik”)
Vegetables (“ vegta-bols”)
Angry (“engry”)
Hungry (“ han gry”)
Tomb (’toom’)
Height (‘hait ‘)
Mice (“mais”)
Jury (“ giuri”)
Bury (“ beri”)
Bear (“ber)
Choir (“quaier”)
Maintenance (‘mait-nence ) 
Recipe (‘resepi’)
Queue (‘kiu’)
Rural (‘roo-ral’)
Colonel (‘kernol’)