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Words with Silent N || English Pronunciation || Learn English Grammar through Hindi

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We all know that English is not an easy language to learn. It can even prove to be difficult and confusing for students who have a background of two or more languages!

For many students, however, it is the pronunciation that causes most of the problems. List of Words With 17 Silent Letters in English
 04.23.2014  Nadia Ilyas  English Grammar, English Pronunciation , Silent Letters in English

 

silent letter E

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introductory
uses of silent letters
examples of origins of words
silent B
silent C
silent D
silent E
silent G
silent GH
silent H
silent K
silent L
silent N
silent P
silent PH
silent S
silent T
silent U
silent W
Exercise
We all know that English is not an easy language to learn. It can even prove to be difficult and confusing for students who have a background of two or more languages!

For many students, however, it is the pronunciation that causes most of the problems.


 
It is evident that there are some very common pronunciation issues that people face when learning English as a second language. This isn’t such a bad thing, as it means we know exactly which areas to target to make these difficulties easier to overcome.

One prominent obstacle can be silent letters.

I hear you asking:

Why are there silent letters in English?
What use are they if we don’t pronounce them?
Why aren’t the words spelt like they are spoken?
What are the rules for silent letters in English?

These are all very good questions!

You may think that silent letters can’t be all that important if they’re not pronounced, but as a matter of fact, they make a HUGE difference to the meaning of words, and sometimes, they even have the power to change their pronunciation!

If you look into the history of this language, you will see that about 90% of English used to be phonemic (this means that the words sounded the same as they looked). There were hardly any silent letters at all, but this soon began to change around the 15th century. Many words from other languages were introduced into English, to make it look more Latin or French. This caused problems as the new words didn’t follow the same rules of grammar as English! That is why, even though the spelling was already fixed for those words, some letters became silent.

The Latin alphabet was also adapted into the English language, and so there are only 26 letters to represent approximately 41 different significant sounds. For this reason, an attempt to use combinations of letters to represent sounds was introduced, thus ensuring that all the major sounds in English were covered.

This does make silent letters quite interesting, as you can see the history of each word in the way it is spelt, and track its origins!

As time passed, pronunciation continued to change, but the old spelling was preserved by the printing press, which came to England around the Middle English period. That’s why there are words that end in a silent ‘e’, or have other silent letters in the middle, such as ‘fright’.

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