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.

This is the seventh other consonant programme in our series of 45 pronunciation videos that explore the sounds of English.

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