Not surprised - Americans are not familiar with silent letters and rightfully so! The reason why the British and the commonwealth retained the U is because the word is derived from Old French and kept it's original spelling with the U in commonwealth spelling.
Other examples would be "Centre" vs "Center". Though we adopted an "English" pronunciation of the word, the French spelling was retrained in UK/Commonwealth spelling.
How here it gets more confusing the pronunciation of lieutenant differs between the US and the Commonwealth, the American pronunciation is closer to the French pronunciation (as the word is derived from Old French) while the commonwealth pronounced it differently. The opposite is with the word "Yoghurt/Yogurt"
I have to disagree with the first point you made. Americans are very familiar with silent letters. It's just the e is the only one that we use all the time.
We occasionally use other letters like the t (tsunami) and b (lamb) but u's are just uncommon in American English.
Do you care about the small differences in spelling? (UK vs. US)
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Not surprised - Americans are not familiar with silent letters and rightfully so! The reason why the British and the commonwealth retained the U is because the word is derived from Old French and kept it's original spelling with the U in commonwealth spelling.
Other examples would be "Centre" vs "Center". Though we adopted an "English" pronunciation of the word, the French spelling was retrained in UK/Commonwealth spelling.
How here it gets more confusing the pronunciation of lieutenant differs between the US and the Commonwealth, the American pronunciation is closer to the French pronunciation (as the word is derived from Old French) while the commonwealth pronounced it differently. The opposite is with the word "Yoghurt/Yogurt"
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I have to disagree with the first point you made. Americans are very familiar with silent letters. It's just the e is the only one that we use all the time.
We occasionally use other letters like the t (tsunami) and b (lamb) but u's are just uncommon in American English.
The rest of what you said was quite interesting.
i thought yur name was randomporn LOL my bad.
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Hahaa!!!!