inglish  +  72061 Fri, 04 Feb 05 12:28 PM Hi, Please read the subject "Szilent Kletters" as "Silent letters", because it has Z is silent and K is silent in kletters. Okey okey, comming to point, I know there is no meaning to the just above said. Many times I asked my self why do we have the silent letters in the words like knight, knife, could, would, tsunami etc., I even asked my teachers (in school days) , but didnt find the answer. I am expecting the answer from one of the members. Thank you inglish Joined on Wed, Sep 10 2003 Secunderabad - India Full Member 197 Some men sees things as they are and say why??? I sees things that never were and say why not!

	nona the brit  +  72087 Fri, 04 Feb 05 02:17 PM Hi Sometimes it is a mispronounciation of a foreign word - tsunami for example. Although most English speakers say soo-nami, it is a Japanese (I believe) word that sound with the 'ts' sound not an 's'. Likewise Tsar/Tzar etc. Where the native sound is not used in English it is adapted to its closest sound. With the silent ks it is a case of change over time. The k used to be pronounced in old English. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all.

	King  +  73759 Mon, 14 Feb 05 03:16 AM Nona is right. German still has the kn sound pronounced. Many sounds changed in english, for example the e in four letter words (hate, race, rake) used to be pronounced, but now it just tells us to use "ej" for a. King Joined on Sat, Nov 13 2004 New Member 33 Whatever I just said is about AMERICAN English. Just warning you.

	vinodram  +  74062 Tue, 15 Feb 05 09:45 AM There are many words like psyche, queue where in the most of the letters are been omitted I cant understand this. Can any one help? vinodram Joined on Tue, Jul 13 2004 Chennai, India Full Member 360 Vidhya dhathathe vinayam | Vinayath yathi pathrathvam || Pathrathvath Janam apnothi | Janah dharmam thatus sukam||

	inglish  +  74328 Wed, 16 Feb 05 10:41 AM there is a big list of such Silent Killers(letters) I started to post to find out the answer Hey do you know any work which has a hidden letter? inglish

	inglish  +  75706 Tue, 22 Feb 05 08:45 AM that was silent letter not word, I was saying, just like how we have silent letters in words which we ignore while pronounce, do we have any words which has hidden letter which we will prounce it but we dont write. This is my idea/proposal inglish