And these aren’t even the hardest words to pronounce in the English language. The English language is notorious for its use of silent letters. In fact, about 60 percent of English words contain ...

In high school, I had a traumatic experience involving the word colonel ... a few days later for displeasing the English gods. (They don’t take silent letters lightly.) In an effort to avoid ...

Silent letters are the scourge of spellers and 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 ...

Letter Character:Silent letters are found in lots of English words and because you can’t hear them when you say the word it makes spelling these words really tricky. To remember the silent n in ...

English is becoming one of the most common languages worldwide, yet silent letters in words present a challenge for many learners. Silent letters help distinguish homophones, but result from ...

ATLANTA – Silence is golden, according to a saying, but silent letters in the English ... catch on,” says Kretzschmar. The English spelling of some words show its history, according to UGA ...

LC:Silent letters are found in lots of English words and because you can’t hear them when you say the word it makes spelling these words really tricky. Bahhh. We all know this is a lamb ahhhh ...

And overtime, silent letters became much more prominent in English, and are pretty much everywhere in the word. The letter could be silent in the beginning, middle, or end of words. If you ask a ...