The silent letter is the skinned knee of every schoolchild. Why does “debt” include a “b”? Why does “island” include an “s”? And why does “knee” begin with a “k”? These mute phantoms lurk in hundreds ...

The rogue knight doubted that the asthmatic knave in knickers could climb the castle columns, but when their wrangle wrought chaos on the couple, the knight resigned with the knowledge that their ...

ATLANTA – Silence is golden, according to a saying, but silent letters in the English language are baffling to some. It’s enough to make you gnash your teeth. An 11Alive viewer contacted Why Guy Jerry ...

You’d think spelling and pronunciation would go hand in hand. Well, English had other plans. Silent letters are those sneaky little things hiding in plain sight – they’re written down but never ...

The scourge of spellers, silent letters are often a stumbling block when learning how to write in English. To the modern eye, it's unclear what these letters are doing in the words in question, and ...

English is not written phonetically, and one manifestation of this is the presence of silent letters in many words. Mitigating what might otherwise be total chaos, there are patterns or categories in ...

Silent letters are letters that can’t be heard when the word is spoken. For example in the word 'sword', you don’t pronounce the letter ‘w’. sword And the letter ‘h’ is silent in the word 'ghost'.

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