ADVANCED / INTERMEDIATE English Lesson “Silent Letters”

20 Words with Silent Letters: A Guide to English’s Hidden Characters READING Silent letters in English are like linguistic ghosts — remnants of how words were once pronounced hundreds of years ago. When the great vowel shift swept through English between 1400 and 1700, many sounds gradually disappeared from speech but stubbornly remained in writing. […]

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