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Silent K and GH: How 'Knight' Keeps Its Old English Ghost
Episode 78
Published 6 days, 22 hours ago
Description
Explore how the medieval word "knight" still bears silent letters that echo its Old English pronunciation. We trace the phonological shifts, orthographic conservatism, and dictionary decisions that left us with a spelling that sounds almost like it once did.
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