silent letters as is in

pterodactyl

gnome

island

listen

is there a point to these silent letters or do they exist solely to mess with my head?


In addition to this please stop reinventing the pronounciation of words .....It's Ur Anus, not UR IN Is, Bode eh see A , not bod i ca and Car a be in , not Car rib e in ..

Thank you

Silent letters are weird dawny 'Castle'...'know'...why the hell is there a 'c' in 'scissors'? Why is there a 'h' in 'school'? Why is there a 'b' in 'numb'? The English language...is weird.

have you got nits? Lots of scratching your head there

Thats's another one nit v's knit

It's no wonder i've never been able to learn another language , I don't even understand my own

they are pretty stupid, but i think if we dropped them, everything would look weird. casle, sissors, scool, nitting
maybe they just work like accents and shit in those other languages?

wake up bomb, come explain!!!

Well I am no expert but here is my attempt at answering your questions regarding silent letters. In some cases the letters are remnant from the words original origin. In the same way that when people say hello now they often drop the H. I also think that in some cases the letter effects how you say the other letters around it but it is too early for me to think of an example. Hopefully this helps. Remember language evolves over time which is why it is hard to understand Shakespeare.

It's a conspiracy to complicate spelling bees.

Good question! Sometimes I think it is to make words more distinguished looking. But I like what I-Baster just stated and it may have to do with the old English origins. Prolly some are derivatives of other languages like Latin and Greek.

I love words and studying languages, so I find this subject fascinating.

A lot of the English language has a French influence which is why us English spell Centre re instead of the American er of center.

Yeh, ure rite.

English is a proper hot-pot of most European languages tbf.
Actually even 'English' should really be 'Anglish'.

silvershine wrote: A ritual conducted by adoring Ultravox fanatics?
or perhaps you meant write, wright or right?

feather wrote:
Yeah, u r write 2

Text speak, that is another kind of writing that annoys me, I have had to use good old 'google' to find out what some of it means.

Some people would text and then ask me why I never replied, I would say, "probably because I couldn't make head or tail of it, after all, I am a grown adult, I am not fuckin 12".

silvershine wrote:
You are not twelve inches?

^ What gender are you Silvershine? I was just curious as most men seem to have a problem admitting details like that.