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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.

Silent letters don't bother me. It's the invisible ones on here that bother me...

Yeah those invisible ones get up to a whole lotta mischief, name calling and you can't even see them, at least the silent ones don't talk.

Hmm... Is this up to you to decide? And what does it matter? I have used five silent letters in this post.

Doesn't our language rule?

Pokemon hater wrote:
> And what is the point of always having U after Q.

Right... the letter is pronounced queue but when it's used in a word without the u it is pronounced as a (cu)p! Get it. The only reason the letter Q is pronounced Queue is because of the u in Queue!

Dringo wrote:
> Yeah those invisible ones get up to a whole lotta mischief, name calling and you
> can't even see them, at least the silent ones don't talk.

The invisible ones are the ones that whisper in your ear during an exam and tell u the wrong answers. Blame the invisible letters!

I think crum sounds worse than crumb..... probably because I'm used to it with a b, but anyway, this is a pretty pointless topic.

So what about photograph it has two ph's when there should be two f's so it should be fotograf.

We "read" something and when we've finished, we've "read" it.

Read ("reed") and read ("red") - different pronunciation, same spelling.... daft if you ask me.

the alphabet is dodgy in the first place anyway so there! silent letters i think are useful as they help pronounce words like crumb as you said. i can't imagine myself saying crum but that's probably because we've been saying crumb our entire life ain't it?