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We have to contend not only with silent letters in English, but also with the overlooked fact that the name of some consonants begins with a vowel sound, for example, L, M, N, R, S and X.

The long “e” sound is pronounced the same as the name of the letter “e.” It often appears in words where the letter “e” is followed by a silent “e” at the end, or in certain vowel combinations like ...

And they're everywhere. According to the author of The Word Snoop Ursula Dubosarky, about 60 per cent of English words contain silent letters, and they can be consonants as well as silent vowels.

Teaching your little ones how to correctly pronounce their words isn't easy - especially when there are so many silent consonants and necessary vowels. The English language really isn't easy ...

Double consonants before a silent “e” would be trimmed, so cigarette would be cigaret, giraffe “giraf”, and (one change that did work) gramme became gram, including in “telegramme”.