Why does the English language have so many words where one or more letters are silent. For example why couldn’t “Knife” be simply written as nife or whatever combination of letters that make pronunciation obvious.

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Why does the English language have so many words where one or more letters are silent. For example why couldn’t “Knife” be simply written as nife or whatever combination of letters that make pronunciation obvious.

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This is part of the reasons why US English uses color instead of colour and apparently there have been many attempts to reform spelling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform

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