Thursday 22 September 2022

Listen Up! These Are the Silent Letters of the English Language (Dictionary.com)

You probably already know that English features many, many words with silent letters—letters that appear in the word but aren’t pronounced and often make us wonder what they are even doing there. For example, the letter B in the words debt and thumb. Or whatever the heck is going on in the words colonel, queue, and bourgeoisie.

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