Talk:Silent K

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[edit] Deletion

I don't see why this page meets the criteria for deletion. I didn't find any articles on 'Silent K' although there is an article on 'Silent E'.

The information is ofcourse useful to both students of English and teachers alike.

I think the article should at least be started so that it may grow into an article of the same calibre as the 'Silent E' article.

I think you don't need to 'care enough' to move the article to the 'K' article. It would be more suited to a 'Silent Consonant' article, which doesn't exist yet.

That is a good point; I was not aware of the existence of Silent E. --Chris 09:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] notability

Is silent k so different from silent p or g? This list of words looks copy-and-pasted from the "kn" section of a dictionary. At least b is more unpredictable in its appearances. Perhaps we can have an article on vestigial consonants of English. Potatoswatter 08:09, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Old English

"In Old English the /k/ was not silent (pronounced dn-, hn-, tn-)"
Really? I would have guessed [kn] to usually have a /kn/ pronunciation. Also, does anyone know if there is a reason that the Ks that became silent (and were maintained in orthography) all precede N? --Xyzzyva (talk) 06:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)