How to pronounce“opal”in English
walk around saying habit but we actually took it from French and in a way we should say abbit or hospital but in actual fact came into the language as
opal or ospital that's how it came into the so very there's some very strange anomalies particularly around the letter H and interestingly enough we always say
either it's pronounced H or we don't pronounce it but you say for me the word h u g you say that to me huge now you've used the sound at the beginning of that
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Definitions of “opal”
A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO₂·nH₂O.
“Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)”
A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO₂·nH₂O.