English, a silent language
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