silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation. In linguistics, a silent letter is...

Silent Letter is the eighth studio album by American folk rock duo America, released by Capitol Records in June 1979. It was the first America studio...

in Italian and French. In English, ⟨h⟩ occurs as a single-letter grapheme (being either silent or representing the voiceless glottal fricative /h/ and in...

indicate that the ⟨e⟩ is not silent and does not affect the preceding vowel (as in Jesse and posse). In English, the "letter name" of a vowel is its long...

dialects, the ng in strength and length is simply pronounced /n/, with g a silent letter, and the ng is otherwise pronounced /ŋ/ in those words. Americanist...

Boomers Silent letter, a letter in a word which is not pronounced Silent Pool, a lake in Surrey, United Kingdom List of people known as the Silent Silence...

sounds used to be pronounced in Old and Middle English. The letter ⟨k⟩ is normally silent (i.e. it does not reflect any sound) when it precedes an ⟨n⟩...

Although it is not a diacritic, the comma has a similar function as a silent letter in a handful of Greek words, principally distinguishing ό,τι (ó,ti,...

in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill 2 centers on James Sunderland, a widower who journeys to the town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his...

is often silent in such words as walk or could (though its presence can modify the preceding vowel letter's value), and it is usually silent in such words...