Interesting Stuff

Lots of letters can be silent in English, but I’m missing a few. Can anyone help fill in the rest of this table? Proper nouns are cheating. So is “February.”

Edit: words in italics were found by minorninth at this page. To be honest, though, I’d like better ones for Q and Y.

• A – boat
• B – numb
• C – scissors
• D – adjective
• E – made
• F –
• G – gnaw
• H – through
• I – piece
• J –
• K -knew
• L – talk
• M – mnemonic
• N – damn
• O – leopard
• P – psychic
• Q – lacquer
• R –
• S – island
• T – often
• U – fugue
• V –
• W – who
• X – faux
• Y – prayer
• Z – rendezvous

Remember when I mentioned Google bombs? Well, it turns out that 2 weeks after I posted that, Google changed their algorithms so that Google bombs no longer work. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Go to Google’s homepage, search for “miserable failure” and click I’m Feeling Lucky. This was created by something called a Google Bomb. (Edit: it doesn’t work any more)

…is Bruce Schneier, the world-renowned security guru. From the website, a list of my favorites →