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In American English all 26 letters of the alphabet can be silent

By 2 Caballero Criado Costeño on September 28, 2010

From: crockford.com/wrrrld/silent.html
Here bolded letters are silent:
head, debt, science, handsome, puff, high, business, hajj, knight, talk, mnemonic, damn, people, psycho, lacquer, purr, island, whistle, guess, revving, wrong, faux, they're, rendezvous

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7 Cobra Baghdad who disagreed, says

I pronounce the d in handsome.

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3 tenebrus who agreed, says

I find 'talk' to be a strained example.

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2 Caballero Criado Costeño who agreed, says

Is 'talk' one of those cases like Rachel mentioned?

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