Brought to you by the silent letter

January 30, 2015 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Brought to you by the silent letter

English is not the easiest language to learn: we already know that. There seems to be an exception to every rule. I before E, except after C, for example. What about cover, hover, and over? This interesting topic came from the World Lady blog and her post, “Silent letters in English: The Series.”

The sounds and spellings of the English language are tricky. Take the letter H, for example. Sometimes it is silent and sometimes it is pronounced. And that isn’t always consistent — hello, herb?

And it isn’t always the first letter of a word in question. What about the”l” in could, would, and should? This just adds to the irony of how Americans uphold English as the standard and the language at the highest stanchion of all languages.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.