"The silver spoon" is an English equivalent of the Italian cookbook title Il cucchiaio d'argento.
Specifically, the masculine singular definite article il is "the." The masculine noun cucchiaio means "spoon." The preposition di* means "of." The masculine noun argento translates as "silvery."
The pronunciation will be "eel koo-KEYE-o dar-DJEN-to" in Italian.
*The vowel drops -- and is replaced by an apostrophe -- before a noun whose spelling begins with a vowel.
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