Is there a word made up entirely of silent letters? If so how would you pronounce it? (DUMB) “B” is silent!
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you could spell it in sign language
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Silence because when you say "silence" (or anything else for that matter), silence disappears/ silence is broken/ it's not silent anymore.
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sounds like a crossword puzzle question...\n\nTry this site for figuring this and other crossword clues.  This is especially good when you have one or more letters figured out already!!!\n\nOBI is the only result returned from your input though.
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Yes. \n\nJust like "Silence" which means absense of sound. So no such thing as "absolute silence", "total silence".
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It's the phonetic alphabet.  Theoretically there is no other word in the English language that sounds like any word in that alphabet.  It was originally intended for radio communications, so operators wouldn't confuse letters like B and D.
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The word comes from the greek word pneuma, air or spirit, and in that word the p is pronounced. In English, we tend to avoid having two consonants in a row without a vowel in between, and thus the p has become silent, but because of its origins, the spelling has been set with a p. The same thing happened with psychology, which comes from the Greek word psyche, in which the p was also pronounced.
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it is letter B which is not correct because the intersection of the \nmutually exclusive events is zero.
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My vote:  TSKTSKS\n\nEXPLANATION\n\nFIRST, what IS a vowel?\n\nbostonianinmo is correct - in words like "sky" the "y" IS a vowel.  The very fact that "bi-" and "by" rhyme, or that you sometimes find "rimed" instead of "rhymed" is evidence of this.\n\nThe idea that ONLY a,e,i,o and u (or even "sometimes y") are vowels in based on oversimplified definition they gave us in grade school.  In fact, a vowel is, before all else, a type of SOUND rather than a type of LETTER.  We call specific letters "vowels" because these letters are the ones TYPICALLY used to indicate the vowel sounds.\n(compare http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxword00.html)\n\nRemember that SPEECH has the primacy and that a word is, first of all a SPOKEN thing.  Writing systems were created as a means to make a record of speech.\n\nNote that the three sounds indicated by the letters "h" "w" and "y" are all weak "semi-vowels" which can easily become vowels or even disappear (as "h" at the end of a syllable).  The basic rule is that, whenever "y" or "w" BEGIN a syllable they mark consonants; at the middle of end of a syllable they mark VOWELS.  (In the case of "w", except for words from the Welsh, like "cwm" [pronounced "coom"!] w is only used for vowels in diphthongs, e.g., "How now brown cow?"     It's even easier to see that they are functioning vowels if you note that final "oy" is pronounced exactly like the "oi" in the middle of a word, and "ow" is pronounced like "ou".)\n\n(Of course, one of my favorite words in all this is "why", made up ONLY of semi-vowels.)\n\n------------------------\n\nThere ARE words without vowel SOUNDS (and in which none of the letters indicates a vowel).   They are various "interjections", such as the following:\n\nbrr(r)\ngrr(r)\ntsk\nshh(h) \npsst\nhmm\nmm-hmm\n\nThis last one might be the longest all by itself.  (It is true we might add extra letters to many such words, e.g., h's to "shh" or r's to "brr".  But that would be cheating. And where would you stop?!)\n\nI think the longest bona fide word of this sort is "tsktsks" used as a verb, the equivalent of "utters a tsktsk" or "expresses disapproval", e.g., "he tsktsks her suggestions".
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Jewelry - not Joolery\nAsterisk - not a$$-trick (and oddly enough, I had to use dollar signs to avoid asterisks!)\nCavalry - not Calvery (unless you're talking about the mountain) \n\nI have an aunt who cannot say "breakfast" - she says "breftuss". It drives me absolutely bonkers.\n\nJust a note regarding the pronunciation of the word "the" - both pronunciations are correct. Generally, the schwa sound  "thuh" is used before words beginning with consonants (the building), and the long E "thee" is used before words beginning with vowels (the outdoors). "Thee" is also used to emphasize the importance of the following word. See the Wikipedia article below.\n\nI'll also add one more word - Been. I admit, I have a tendency to get sloppy and say "bin" or "ben" although the correct pronunciation is "bee-n". (long E like seen).\n(Update - my "bin" pronunciation is acceptable! Check out the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary with the audio pronunciation. Whew - I'm not an illiterate idiot after all.)\n\nOkay, back with a couple more.\n\nMoot (moo like a cow, not mew like a kitten)\nSpecific (not pacific)\nProbably (this has 3 syllables, not 2 - it is pro bab ly not prob ly)
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Add the first 5 letters of the alphabet to each of those words to spell a new word:\n\nadd 'a' to 'bash' to spell 'abash'\nadd 'b' to 'ale' to spell 'bale'\nadd 'c' to 'able' to spell 'cable'\nadd 'd' to 'ear' to spell 'dear'\nadd 'e' to 'bony' to spell 'ebony'\n\nI think it took me about 2 hours to finally get that.  Doesn't seem like it should have been that hard afterall.
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I believe the G is silent. I know someone named Nga, and it's pronounced "Naw"
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Here is a word, an onomatopoeia to be exact, that will tell you why:\n\n"Baaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
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If 13 is an unlikely number then so should the letter "b" be because "b" looks like a scruntched up 13. Hi my name is bob  - get the f uck away!
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Is it the letter 'm'?\n\nIt begins the word 'me' which is on the rightmost in the first line.\nXylophones do not have the letter 'm'.\nThe only clue I can't get is the 'eye & hand' one\n\nSomething to do with "VERY CLEVER" I guess ;)\nIt's really hard.
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There a historical reasons for the spelling.  For example, "hour" is spelled with an "h" because it comes from French "heure" and was never pronounced in English.  But other silent letters aren't really silent at all.  For example, take "race" and "rack".  Both could be spelled "rac", but then you would not know whether the "c" was pronounced like the "c" in "cat" or the "c" in "city".  The "e" in "race" says "pronounce the 'c' like an 's'", while the "k" in "rack" says "pronounce the 'c' like a 'k'" (the "k" is the silent letter in "rack").  So don't disparage the "silent letters".  They aren't really "silent" at all, but give us important information about how to pronounce the other letters in the word.
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Ooooh dear. The pudding is still a little soggy at the bottom isn't it.\n\n\nWe have *ONE* alphabet\nThere are 26 letters in the English alphabet\nWe are clever so we can use upper AND lower case\nPronunciation is how a letter sounds - nothing to do with a letter
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My typing teacher told us that everyone has some combination of letters they will always mess up, for some reason.  For myself, it's always the T and the H ... so my "the" looks like "hte".  It's apparently normal.