The "g" sound was lost when Latin phlegma became Old French fleume. But the silent "g" still gets pronounced in variations on the word, such as phlegmatic , which means "showing little emotion." ...

You’d think spelling and pronunciation would go hand in hand. Well, English had other plans. Silent letters are those sneaky little things hiding in plain sight - they’re written down but ...

Silent letters are the ghosts of pronunciations past. The word 'knight', with its silent 'k', and silent 'gh', is cognate with the German word for servant, 'knecht', where every letter is pronounced.

The “g” sound in phlegm was lost when Latin phlegma became Old French fleume. ... But like other kn-words, including knight and know, the k went silent in Modern English. 12.