Why I won't stay silent about useless letters

By Cherith Scott

Hunterhouse College

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What’s the point in Silent Letters?
None..Exactly!
Why use more letters spelling K-n-o-w when you can use N-o… and F-o-u-r is another one when it’s F-o-r.

By adding a ‘u’ in F-o-r it’s ridiculous and so pointless, they both sound the same maybe not spelt the same and obviously and they don’t have the same meaning but that’s wasting more energy writing more letters than just using the shorter word and when you say t-h-e-r-e, it sounds exactly like t-h-e-i-r and t-h-e-y-‘r-e, that’s three words all sounding the same but with different meanings and spelling.

Like how stupid can some people be? Using these words in a certain context, you can tell what ‘there’ you are talking about so why not reduce it to ‘t-h-e-i-r’ and make them all have the same spelling!