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"Why is there silent letters in the English alphabet."

I get really anoyed with silent letters such as the b in crumb there is no point.

I get really anoyed with silent letters such as the b in crumb there is no point.

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i agree like why isnt queue just spelt like Q?

Serious Dave wrote:
> i agree like why isnt queue just spelt like Q?

Because Q is a letter, queue is a word; see the difference?

*dons his auld mans hat*

In my day, a remark about punctuation like you young miscreants are doing would have resulted in a whipping with a cane...you don't know when you were born...

*takes off his auld mans hat*

Or the que as in snooker que.

I think you'll find it's a snooker "cue". Does anyone know their english in here!?

And what is the point of always having U after Q.

All this stuff was decided over 200 years ago

I think that's why the Americans spell differently, other than them just being stupid I mean ;)

When the settlers went over, we spelt colour - "color" and all the other weird mistakes they make. They stuck with them while we changed ours slightly

I don't see the English language changing too much in the near future, except for American pressure to have programme changed to their version - "program"

But getting rid of silent letters - don't see it happening

I think there are silent letters because they help to seperate the same sounding word into 3 or 4 uses

Silent letters used to be pronounced as they came from ncient languages, such as knock used to be pronouned 'ku-nok'. However this fizziled out, so just the pronouncition nok is now used.

However, cheater can you please leard that opening posts in threads should be funny, or making a point, or interesting, or praising somebody. Out if the many posts you spam, sorry make, none I have seen have met any of those requirements. Please get a grip.