"soft c" meaning in English

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        {
          "text": "In English, the \"c\" sound in \"cent\", \"central\" and \"circuit\" as distinct from the hard c in \"cat\" and \"cabin\"."
        },
        {
          "text": "In Italian, the \"c\" sound in \"certo\" as distinct from the \"c\" sound in \"caffè\"."
        }
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        "In many languages, a letter \"c\" which is not pronounced as a velar stop (/k/, like English \"k\") but as a sibilant (/s/, like English \"s\") or an affricative (/tʃ/, like English \"ch\")."
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          "velar"
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        "(phonology) In many languages, a letter \"c\" which is not pronounced as a velar stop (/k/, like English \"k\") but as a sibilant (/s/, like English \"s\") or an affricative (/tʃ/, like English \"ch\")."
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          "word": "soft g"
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          "word": "hard c"
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          "word": "c doux"
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  "word": "soft c"
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      "word": "soft g"
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      "word": "hard c"
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          "text": "In English, the \"c\" sound in \"cent\", \"central\" and \"circuit\" as distinct from the hard c in \"cat\" and \"cabin\"."
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        "(phonology) In many languages, a letter \"c\" which is not pronounced as a velar stop (/k/, like English \"k\") but as a sibilant (/s/, like English \"s\") or an affricative (/tʃ/, like English \"ch\")."
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      "word": "c doux"
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  "word": "soft c"
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