News

A series of powerful silent clips where no dialogue or sound is needed to convey strong emotions, stories, or messages ...
The scourge of spellers, silent letters are often a stumbling block when learning how to write in English. To the modern eye, it's unclear what these letters are doing in the words in question ...
The word muscle is a classic example of a word with that enigmatic and classic silent letter. We pronounce it mussel, eschewing the “c” sound.
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 ...
According to Ursula Duboarky, author of “The Word Snoop,” about 60 % of English words contain at least one silent letter, either at the beginning, somewhere in the middle or at the end.
The high-octane, extremely violent revenge thriller 'Silent Night' from the Hong Kong master John Woo is exactly that: A “silent” movie with not one word of dialogue.
It’s true that Silent Hill 2 nails this with effective eeriness and skin-crawling audio, but it’s all the better with surround sound.
Shhhh! Listen close as Mr. Steve explains the power of the often-overlooked, sneaky silent letters that like to slip into words. Sometimes letters like b and l, make no sound at all ...
The K Is Silent is their debut album, released on Friday (May 1) via Bentley's record label, UMG Nashville, which is no doubt capitalizing on the current wave of '90s country nostalgia.
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.
What to See (and Hear) at the Sound of Silent Film Festival Here’s the scoop on the annual fest—plus a sneak peek at 2 of the 9 short films the Music Box will show on April 29.
Silent letters are very often hidden remnants of how words passed through different languages on their way to English.