silent letter

Silent letters are common in French, including the last letter of most words.

Three letter rule source of some common English silent letters.

Sometimes a silent letter is added to help indicate pronunciation.

Omitting or including the wrong silent letters are common errors.

Latin scholars, meanwhile, tried to help by adding silent letters to show where words came from.

There were no silent letters and never any question about spelling or pronunciation.

They did this by adding silent letters to make the real or imagined links more obvious.

These silent letters cropped up between vowels in the middle of words, at the beginning or the end.

E is often a silent letter at the end of words, and consonants are generally doubled before them.

This system generally follows French, but eliminates silent letters and reduces the number of different ways in which the same sound can be written.

Many words had silent letters removed and vowel combination brought closer to the spoken language.

No one likes a silent letter, even when deployed for humorous or allusive reasons.

Different publications and factions adopted their own conventions, dropping or keeping silent letters as they saw fit.

Indeed, the Luganda word for consonant is "silent letter".

One of the noted difficulties of English spelling is a high number of silent letters.

List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations, many with multiple silent letters.

Some silent letters were added on the basis of erroneous etymologies, as in the case of the word "island".

Despite being rather phonemic, Spanish orthography retains some silent letters:

There are no silent letters in Haitian Creole.

The most radical reformists wanted to do away with all silent letters and change the remaining ones to a smaller subset of the alphabet.

Further reform in 1957 eliminated some of the silent letters which are still used in Scottish Gaelic.

Vowels are often removed when they are not the first or last letter of a word, and silent letters are also ignored.

In many English words, there are silent letters that bear witness to an earlier pronunciation and, often, to etymological connections with other words.

Pronunciation is relatively straight forward: there are no silent letters and each syllable is pronounced with equal stress.

All silent letters are omitted.