And these aren’t even the hardest words to pronounce in the English language. The English language is notorious for its use of silent letters. In fact, about 60 percent of English words contain ...

LC:Silent letters are found in lots of English ... you would expect the word to be spelt l, a, m. But lamb has a b on the end of it: l, a, m - b. Ha ha! Not that kind of bee – the letter b.

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 ...