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Silent Letters, New and Old

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Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, says not all letters that are silent now (think the "b" in lamb) were always silent and not all letters that we do not pronounce (think the "ed" in skimmed milk) are supposed to be silent.  

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Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.