Silent Letters Puzzle

[xilman]

Originally Posted by MS63

The D IS pronounced.

The D of "edge" is pronounced in my dialect, too. How about the following for a first cut. Needless to say, all are taken from my dialect.

Aisle
deBt
Ctene
weDnesday
weE
stafF
miGht
Honour
busIness
gJu
Knife
couLd
Mpret
damN
Oedema
cuPboard
lacQuer
ouR
iSle
boaTswain
gUile
akVavit
tWo
bureauX
eYot
rendeZvous

Some letters are ridiculously easy, some extremely hard. E is so easy that I chose a word which is pronounced identically whether or not the second E is present. Last to occur to me was V. I don't entirely like lacQuer because the Q is serving to make a hard-c, as does the k in sock. On the other hand, although I rather like the word umQuile, I wasn't sure I could get away with it. In my dialect, the first M is silent in Mneme but I thought if someone else could get away with Tzar (the first letter is pronounced in my dialect) the least I could do was to use another name of a eastern european ruler.


Paul

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by rogue

C: yacht

D: edge

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by TravisT

My favorite silent c's are the one's in Leicester, Gloucester, Worcestershire, etc.

They are not silent. They are just soft.

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by xilman

T

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What about a silent '3'?


Hen3ry

[xilman]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

What about a silent '3'?


Hen3ry

But Sam stayed just the same.

Paul

[Uncwilly]

I like using the silent letters with spelling out words for people.

That is "p" as in psychology, "r" in are, "o" in women, "b" in subtle, and "e" in cede.

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

I like using the silent letters with spelling out words for people.

That is "p" as in psychology, "r" in are, "o" in women, "b" in subtle, and "e" in cede.

ghoti = "fish"

[grandpascorpion]

ghoti goes well with ghoughpteighbteau (potato)

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by xilman

But Sam stayed just the same.

Paul

Apparently, at least within the U.S., there is no legal requirement
that a person's name be pronounced the same way it is spelled.

I recall a court case from many years ago here in Taxachusetts,
where a man spelled his name something like "Stanislovskaia", but
pronounced it "Smith" [no joke]. A newspaper related a dialogue
between a judge and this man along the lines of:

"I read in your complaint, Mr. Stanislovskaia that....."
"Excuse me your honor, but my name is "Smith".
"Huh? I read it as "Stanislovskaia"
"Yes, your honor, that is how it is spelled, but I pronounce it 'Smith' "

The newspaper then described a lengthy court proceeding which
involved several appeals as to whether that the man was doing was
legal. The final result was that there is no legal obligation to pronounce
a name the same way it is spelled.......


Weird...

[grandpascorpion]

Was the case solely related to the pronounciation of his name?

I can't picture how that would manifest as a legal matter.

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by grandpascorpion

Was the case solely related to the pronounciation of his name?

I can't picture how that would manifest as a legal matter.

No. The legal case was about something else.