Silent Letter L

You must have been wondering why there are a lot of silent letters in English. This is because English took many of its words from foreign languages, such as Greek and French, and although the pronunciation of some words have changed over the last two or three hundred years, the spelling has stayed the same.… Read More Silent Letter L

Silent Letters

  SILENT LETTERS are letters that you can’t hear when you say the word, but that are there when you write the word. The English language has a lot of silent letters. Silents letters cause spelling and pronunciation difficulties for English learners. For example, in silent B, you say “boming” for the word bombing, or in… Read More Silent Letters