GENERAL RULES.
A vowel in the beginning or middle syllable, before two consonants, is commonly short, as ŏppŏrtunity.
In monosyllables a single vowel before a single consonant is short; as stag, frog.
Many is pronounced as if it were written manny.
OF CONSONANTS.
B.
B has one unvaried sound, such as it obtains in other languages.
It is mute in debt, debtor, subtle, doubt, lamb, limb, dumb, thumb, climb, comb, womb.
It is used before l and r, as black, brown.