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Eleven, as in llama.
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Re^2: My favorite silent English letter is:
by runrig (Abbot) on Mar 05, 2012 at 19:50 UTC
    There's a difference between "silent" and "pronounced differently" in the language it was borrowed/stolen from. "ll" => "y" and "j" => "h" (someone said something about a "silent" 'h' in some other spanish word elsewhere in this thread).
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