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I dont know whether all letters can be silent, but here are a few others... B - as in numb K - as in knife / knave P - as in receipt C - as in scissors G - as in gnat
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I wrote a very long and detailed answer to this question, but it got completely discarded by the site because I hadn't logged in first. In short: yes, every letter in the alphabet can be silent - provided you take a rather broad view of what an English word is. Googling for "silent alphabet" will turn up several good efforts. You need to consider loanwords (marijuana, faux, rendezvous for J, X, Z) and some Scottish names (Colquhoun/co'hoon and Milngavie/mill'guy) that have come from Gaelic for Q and V. Colquhoun was a Scottish clan and is still a surname, while Milngavie is a town near Glasgow which I'm pretty sure has a railway station. Those take care of the hardest cases. A couple of useful words (halfpenny/ha'penny and forecastle/fo'c'sle) come via the Cornish dialect, but are present with that pronounciation in even foreign translation dictionaries, since that usage is or was almost universal. (A halfpenny is no longer worth anything except to collectors, worse luck.) Foreign. That's a good example for G in itself.
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