Re^2: My favorite silent English letter is:

[tye]

in reply to Re: My favorite silent English letter is:
in thread My favorite silent English letter is:

There's an invisible 'f' in "laughter" but the invisible 'f' is silent in "daughter".

[mertserger]

For me there is also an invisible "f" in "lieutenant" as the standard British pronunciation is like "leftenant"

[tye]

What proper Englishman would want to be promoted to be a "loo tenant"?

[tye]

But why choose a replacement pronunciation that sounds very much like being a "lift tenant"? Surely better, but not great.