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In US spellings, silent letters are sometimes omitted (e.g., acknowledgment / UK acknowledgement, ax / UK axe, catalog / UK catalogue, program / UK programme outside computer contexts), but not always (e.g., dialogue is the standard spelling in the US and the UK; dialog is regarded as a US variant; the spelling axe is also often used in the US).
For example, when representing a vowel, y represents the sound /ɪ/ in some words borrowed from Greek (reflecting an original upsilon), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter i .
In English orthography, many words feature a silent e (single, final, non-syllabic ‘e’), most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme. Typically it represents a vowel sound that was formerly pronounced, but became silent in late Middle English or Early Modern English .
/ ˈ r ɛ n oʊ l t / English novelist Matt Groening: GRAY-ning / ˈ ɡ r eɪ n ɪ ŋ / American cartoonist Mike Doughty: DOH-tee / ˈ d oʊ t i / American musician Mike Krzyzewski: shih-ZHEF-skee / ʃ ɪ ˈ ʒ ɛ f s k i / American college basketball coach Mimics Polish Krzyżewski but with a silent initial "k" Patricia Wrede: REED-ee / ˈ r ...
A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...
The English language is notorious for its use of silent letters. In fact, about 60 percent of English words contain a silent letter. In many cases, these silent letters actually were pronounced ...
It does not normally use combinations of letters to represent single sounds, the way English does with sh , th and ng , nor single letters to represent multiple sounds, the way x represents /ks/ or /ɡz/ in English. There are no letters that have context-dependent sound values, the way c and g in several European languages have a "hard" or ...
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