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A silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation.
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Why is "cupboard" pronounced with a silent "p"?
Just to emphasise the pronunciation guides that people have given elsewhere, it's not pronounced as "cup-board" or "cu-board" but really "cubbered" very similar to "covered".
You have to really think …
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