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what is the name for the opposite to silent letters?
silent letters re letters that are not pronounced. like knife what is the name for letters that are pronounced yet are not there, like the H sound in Sean?
2 Answers
- Anonymous5 months ago
invisible letter
A phenomenon in English is the invisible letter, the opposite of a silent one, a letter which is pronounced but not written. There is an invisible initial w in òne, which has the same pronunciation as the past tense of the verb to wín: òne 1 = wòn win.
- Anonymous5 months ago
It's not that the "h" in Sean is missing. It's that in Gaelic s+e = sh. It's a different sound system.