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2. Silent letter - Wikipedia

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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).

3. Silent e - Wikipedia

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   The silent e rule became available to represent long vowels in writing that arose from other sources; Old English brŷd, representing *bruʒd-i-, became Modern English bride. The rules of current English spelling were first set forth by Richard Mulcaster in his 1582 publication Elementarie.

4. Cut Spelling - Wikipedia

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   Cut Spelling uses three main reduction rules to convert traditional spellings into "cut spellings": [2] [3] Letters irrelevant to pronunciation. This rule deletes most silent letters, except when these letters (such as "magic e") help indicate pronunciation. Omitting or including the wrong silent letters are common errors.

5. Category:Silent letters - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Pages in category "Silent letters" The following 6 pages are in this category ...

6. The Real Reason Some English Words Have Silent Letters - AOL

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   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 ...

7. Spelling pronunciation - Wikipedia

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   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 ...