The scourge of spellers, silent letters are often ... that way in English. This word (from Greek kthon, meaning "earth"), tends to lose its initial "k" sound and ends up sounding like thonic.

Silent letters are those sneaky little things hiding in plain sight – they’re written down but never actually said out loud. And yet, we’ve just accepted that “knot” starts with a “K ...

Silent letters are the ghosts of pronunciations past. The word 'knight', with its silent 'k', and silent 'gh', is cognate with the German word for servant, 'knecht', where every letter is pronounced.

Silent letters are the scourge of spellers and 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 ...