The English language is notorious for its use of silent letters. In fact, about 60 percent of English words contain a silent letter. But these often distressing words weren’t intended to be so ...

Silent letters are the scourge of spellers and often a stumbling block when learning how to write in English. To the modern eye, it’s unclear what these letters are doing in the words in ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. And the letter ‘h’ is silent in the word 'ghost'. ghost There are lots more examples of words with silent ...

Well, English had other plans. Silent letters are those sneaky little things hiding in plain sight – they’re written down but never actually said out loud. And yet, we’ve just accepted that ...

Letter Character:Silent letters are found in lots of English words and because you can’t hear them when you say the word it makes spelling these words really tricky. To remember the silent n in ...

On-air challenge: Every answer is a word that starts with a silent letter. Identify the words from their anagrams. Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge comes from Sandy Weisz, of Chicago.