(They don’t take silent letters lightly.) In an effort to avoid future exile, I compiled a list of all the words with easily-forgotten silent letters. They may not be as wretched as colonel but ...

However, the consonant combinations “ts” and “ps” aren’t used to start words in English, so the first letters became silent so it would meet the language’s phonological rules.

The scourge of spellers, silent letters are 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 question ...

On-air challenge: Every answer is a word that starts with a silent letter. Identify the words from their anagrams. Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge comes from Sandy Weisz, of Chicago.

And the letter ‘h’ is silent in the word 'ghost'. ghost There are lots more examples of words with silent letters in English. So keep an eye out for them, because you won’t be able to hear them!

writing that it was “perfect for logophiles (someone who loves words)!” The post went viral and drew over 4,000 commenters, many of them word nerds who shared jokes about puns, silent letters ...

Still racking your brain for more words that start with an X? You might want to stop because the Oxford English Dictionary only lists a mere 400 words that begin with the letter X. Here are a ...