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Speaking of Words: Those Silent Consonants

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Speaking of WordsBy MICHAEL FERBER       We often hear about “silent e,” that magical letter that turns a can into a cane or a glob into a globe, as Tom Lehrer put it in his charming song for the Electric Company many years ago, but a greater problem for English spelling is a large set of silent consonants.  It is one of the reasons English words are so hard to spell or, if you have their spelling before you, so hard to guess their pronunciation…
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indepthnh.org broke the news in on Monday, April 14, 2025.
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