{"id":108,"date":"2017-12-14T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T05:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engmates.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2017-12-14T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:45:59","slug":"silent-letters-usage-rules-in-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engmates.com\/blog\/spoken-english\/silent-letters-usage-rules-in-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Letters &#8211; Usage &#038; Rules in the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silent letters are essentially those letters which are written while writing the words but are not pronounced.\u00a0 It makes things really complicated for non-native English speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Few examples: \u2018K\u2019 letter in Knife, \u2018G\u2019 letter in Gnaw or \u2018W\u2019 letter in Write.<\/p>\n<p>It is normal to wonder why we even use these letters then.<\/p>\n<p>It is because of the progression of the English language and the combined influences from different languages, especially French and Latin. So, these adapted words end up causing confusions as they do not follow the grammar rules of the English language.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, despite the fact that the spellings of these words continued as before, a few letters needed to remain silent to match to the actual English language rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/engmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Silentletters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-111\" src=\"http:\/\/engmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Silentletters.jpg\" alt=\"Silentletters\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Silentletters.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.engmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Silentletters-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Importance of Silent Letters in English<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They enable the person to recognize homophones be\/bee, in\/inn, know\/no, knot\/not, too\/to\/two, whole\/hole.<\/li>\n<li>Magic \u2018e\u2019 \u2013 in the event that you include &#8216;e&#8217; toward the ending of words with short vowel sound it stretches the sound \u2013 at\/ate, hat\/hate, cop\/cope, mat\/mate, tap\/tape, rid\/ride.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes individuals may pronounce some letters or may not base on their pronunciation style or accent, for an instance, the \u2018t\u2019 in \u2018often\u2019 may or may not be pronounced.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018H\u2019 remains silent a considerable measure of accents. However, the \u2018H\u2019 letter remains silent in a few words with French origin\u2013honest, hour, heir, honor, and herb (American).<\/li>\n<li>They demonstrate the history and origin of a particular word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Listed below are a few examples of Silent Letters and how they are used:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A \u2013logically, Artistically, musically, stoically, romantically,<\/li>\n<li>B \u2013crumb, climb, comb, doubt, debt, numb, plumb, tomb, thumb<\/li>\n<li>C \u2013acquit, Acquire, victual, blackguard, muscle, czar, scissors,<\/li>\n<li>D \u2013Wednesday, Handkerchief<\/li>\n<li>E \u2013vegetable, Plaque, clothes, bridge. When \u2018E\u2019 is the ending of any word, it alters the pronunciation of that word but it remains silent in itself.<\/li>\n<li>F \u2013 Halfpenny<\/li>\n<li>G \u2013alight, Align, champagne, though, gnash, diaphragm, gnaw, light, high, reign,<\/li>\n<li>H \u2013exhaust, khaki, Choir, ghost, thyme, hour, heir,<\/li>\n<li>I \u2013 business<\/li>\n<li>J- N\/A<\/li>\n<li>K \u2013knead, know, Blackguard, knell, knife, knickers, knight, knot, knock,<\/li>\n<li>L \u2013Calf, calm, chalk, folk, half, salmon, yolk, talk, psalm,<\/li>\n<li>M \u2013 Mnemonic<\/li>\n<li>N \u2013chimney, Autumn, column, damn, solemn, condemn, hymn,<\/li>\n<li>O\u2013opossum, Colonel,<\/li>\n<li>P \u2013coup, Corps, receipt , pneumonia, psychology, pseudo, ptomaine,<\/li>\n<li>Q- N\/A<\/li>\n<li>R \u2013finger, Butter, garden, myrrh, here,<\/li>\n<li>S \u2013apropos, Aisle, bourgeois, fracas, debris, isle, island,<\/li>\n<li>T \u2013ballet, Asthma, castle, listen, gourmet, rapport, soften, ricochet, thistle<\/li>\n<li>U \u2013colleague, Catalogue, dialogue, guest, guess, guide, guitar, guilt, tongue<\/li>\n<li>V- N\/A<\/li>\n<li>W \u2013write, Answer, whole, two, sword, wrist,<\/li>\n<li>X \u2013 Faux pas<\/li>\n<li>Y-N\/A<\/li>\n<li>Z \u2013rendezvous, laissez-faire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One approach to begin to like spellings and be better at this thing, is to appreciate words, to actually understand the spelling structures and to comprehend the history and origin of words, and this particularly is valid for learning silent letters in the English language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent letters are essentially those letters which are written while writing the words but are not pronounced.\u00a0 It makes things really complicated for non-native English speakers. 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