The English language can be baffling at times—just look to words like phlegm, receipt, and chthonic for proof. Silent letters are unavoidable. Almost every word in the alphabet is occasionally ...

The 26 letters are derived from 24 of the 28 Sabaean letters. Apart from being the only African country with its own alphabet, letters, and numbers, it is also one of the few that still follows ...

It's called the "Soni" alphabet, and its inventor Kaa Bully Nimaga calls it "my gift from God". Mr Nimaga, director of the Nimaga African Arts Collection, said his 28-letter alphabet is exclusively ...

This quirky A-to-Z primer by Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter features words that start with silent letters: C is for Czar, K is for Knight and so on.

The Roman alphabet is an unwieldy vessel for the multitude of sounds in many Western languages, and this is exemplified by the phenomenon of silent letters — for example, the vestigial “k ...