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  2. Silent letter - Wikipedia

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    Silent letters can distinguish between homophones; e.g., in/inn; be/bee; lent/leant. This is an aid to readers already familiar with both words. Silent letters may give an insight into the meaning or origin of a word; e.g., vineyard suggests vines more than the phonetic *vinyard would.

  3. Silent k and g - Wikipedia

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    In English orthography, the letter k normally reflects the pronunciation of [] and the letter g normally is pronounced /ɡ/ or "hard" g , as in goose, gargoyle and game; /d͡ʒ/ or "soft" g , generally before i or e , as in giant, ginger and geology; or /ʒ/ in some words of French origin, such as rouge, beige and genre.

  4. Category:Silent letters - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Silent letters" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 21 Commonly Misspelled Words and How to Spell Them - AOL

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    The post 21 Commonly Misspelled Words and How to Spell Them appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... Silent letters are another big contributor to the confusion.

  7. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    This list does not include place names in the United Kingdom or the United States, or places following spelling conventions of non-English languages. For UK place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom. For US place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United States.

  8. Gh (digraph) - Wikipedia

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    It is considered a single letter, called għajn (the same word for eye and spring, named for the corresponding Arabic letter ʿayn). It is usually silent, but it is necessary to be included because it changes the pronunciation of neighbouring letters, usually lengthening the succeeding vowels. At the end of a word, when not substituted by an ...

  9. Aspirated h - Wikipedia

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    In French spelling, aspirated "h" (French: h aspiré) is an initial silent letter that represents a hiatus at a word boundary, between the word's first vowel and the preceding word's last vowel. At the same time, the aspirated h stops the normal processes of contraction and liaison from occurring. [1]