{"id":888,"date":"2015-09-10T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2015-09-29T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:58:40","slug":"why-english-has-words-with-silent-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/why-english-has-words-with-silent-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why English Has Words With Silent Letters (includes Podcast Recommendation 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This article from the Grammar Girl blog looks at the phenomenon of silent letters &#8211; did you know\u00a0that more than half of the letters in the English\u00a0alphabet are silent in at least some words?\u00a0Why they are so common in English? Click the picture below to see more.\u00a0There is also a\u00a0podcast to accompany the article\u00a0(top right of page).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/education\/grammar\/why-english-has-words-with-silent-letters\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"image-insert_large aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/insert_large\/public\/images\/7434\/SilentLetters.png?itok=_57wgXOS\" alt=\"Words With Silent Letters\" width=\"321\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from the Grammar Girl blog looks at the phenomenon of silent letters &#8211; did you know\u00a0that more than half of the letters in the English\u00a0alphabet are silent in at least some words?\u00a0Why they are so common in English? Click the picture below to see more.\u00a0There is also a\u00a0podcast to accompany the article\u00a0(top right [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,13,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}