This can make learning to spell the words quite tricky! Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'.

The rogue knight doubted that the asthmatic knave in knickers could climb the castle columns, but when their wrangle wrought chaos on the couple, the knight resigned with the knowledge that their ...

The silent letter is the skinned knee of every schoolchild. Why does “debt” include a “b”? Why does “island” include an “s”? And why does “knee” begin with a “k”? These mute phantoms lurk in hundreds ...

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You’d think spelling and pronunciation would go hand in hand. Well, English had other plans. Silent letters are those sneaky little things hiding in plain sight – they’re written down but never ...