be consonant
Example Sentences
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About why the name Kramer worked best for Michael Richards’s character, she writes, “That plosive consonant K sound is known to be among the English language’s funniest phonemes.”
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2016
Take, for example, the plosive consonant T, which sounds one way in the word tree and another way in the word plate—and that’s just in one dialect.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2011
