Daily wordsParole del 27 ago 2026
Where an H survives and where it does not
You're on the last tour of the day at an old manor house, and the guide has just started the part about the family that never quite left.
Dieci parole di inglese per tutti i giorni: hour, heir, honest, ghost, exhibit, herb, forehead, echo, hover, hollow. Ciascuna con la pronuncia e una frase da dire ad alta voce.
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Le dieci parole10 parole, 10 frasi
- 1hour/ˈaʊər/Si dice anche aʊr.nounA length of time of sixty minutes.Sounds just like "our" — the h is silent.
- 2heir/er/nounThe person who legally receives someone's money and property after they die.One syllable, no h. It sounds exactly like 'air'.
- 3honest/ˈɑːnəst/adjectiveNot cheating or lying to people.No h at all; it opens like the word "on".
- 4ghost/ɡoʊst/nounThe spirit of a dead person that some people believe can be seen.The h after the g does nothing.
- 5exhibit/ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/nounA thing put out for the public to look at.The h vanishes and the x turns into a 'gz' sound; stress the middle syllable.
- 6herb/ɜːrb/Si dice anche hɜːrb.nounA leafy plant used in cooking to add flavor.In American English the h is dropped — say 'erb'.
- 7forehead/ˈfɔːrhed/nounThe part of your face between your eyebrows and your hair.Here the h is sounded: fore-head, not 'forrid'.
- 8echo/ˈekoʊ/verbTo ring with a sound that keeps bouncing back.The ch is a k sound: 'eck-oh'.
- 9hover/ˈhʌvər/verbTo stay in one spot in the air without landing.First vowel is like 'love', not like 'over'.
- 10hollow/ˈhɑːloʊ/adjectiveEmpty inside, with a space where solid material would be.
Le frasi
- 1
The whole tour takes about an hour, doesn't it?
- 2
The last heir of the family lived here alone.
- 3
To be honest, I can feel a draft in here.
- 4
Has anyone on this tour actually seen the ghost?
- 5
The portrait in the hall is our oldest exhibit.
- 6
They dried every herb in that little stone kitchen.
- 7
Something cold just touched my forehead near the stairs.
- 8
Our footsteps echo all the way down this hallway.
- 9
The guide said candles used to hover above the table.
- 10
Knock on this wall and it sounds completely hollow.