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It's also possible to mislead by telling the truth.

In formal writing, I still use "e-mail". "E-mail" at the beginning of a sentence.

Regarding "marijuana": you do pronounce the j... if you're speaking Spanish. But this is English! I pronounce it "marowana".

OK, another: silent "i" in "lieu"

Can every letter be used as a silent letter?

  • September 26, 2010, 11:23pm

As for Malaysia, it rhymes with Asia, which has no Y. Thus, it could be spelled "Malasia" and be pronounced the same. Ergo, the Y is silent.

And in my list, only "Le Febvre" is not English!

Can every letter be used as a silent letter?

  • September 26, 2010, 11:20pm

Silent F, silent L:

halfpenny

How do I write out .25% ?

  • September 26, 2010, 10:22am

"[zero] point two five percent".

It's wrong to say "[zero] point twenty five percent", since it has nothing to with the number 25.

Oh it’s... “Free”?

  • September 25, 2010, 2:32pm

The use of quotes for emphasis is nonstandard, and frowned upon. But it's quite common on handwritten ads. As such, they're known as "grocers' quotes."

A: cocoa
B: debt
C: scene
D: Wednesday (first d)
E: game (or any word with a silent e)
F: cliff (either one of the f's)
G: phlegm
H: hour
I: Hawaii
J: marijuana
K: knife
L: talk
M: mnemonic (first m)
N: autumn
O: leopard
P: psychic
Q: lacquer
R: Worcestershire (first r)
S: Arkansas
T: often (yup!)
U: gauge
V: Le Febvre
W: two
X: faux
Y: Malaysia
Z: rendezvous

Past tense of “text”

  • February 22, 2010, 10:10am

Well, You are wrong