Narrator: So… to defeat the dragon, you're just going to tie her up and wait?
Character: Ah ha
Narrator: Wait until the night comes.
Characters giggle
Narrator: Well, seems a tad risky to me, but I'm sure you know what you're doing!
Night is here…now what?
Character screams
Narrator: Aaaah! We weren't waiting for night, we were waiting for 'knight'! The 'k' is a silent letter!
Some words have letters that we don't hear when we say them, like we're on an 'island'.
Or there's a 'castle'
Hey where'd you go?
Oh well I never 'doubted' you.
Silent letters
Silent letters are letters that can’t be heard when the word is spoken.
For example in the word ‘sword’, you don’t pronounce the letter ‘w’. And the letter ‘h’ is silent in the word 'ghost'.
There are lots more examples of words with silent letters in English. So keep an eye out for them, because you won’t be able to hear them!
