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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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.