While you can find words like hajj (an islamic pilgrimage) or munj (a type of asian grass), those words are borrowed and not english words. The only letter that is not found at the end of any word in english is the letter q This is because the letter always requires the letter to follow it in words, making it impossible for to appear at the end. In this video you can see that andrew challenges sara to find a letter that's never at the end of a word But sara can't find it, so andrew showed her the an. In the powerpoint presentation below we see which letters are not usually found at the end of native english words and how this affects spelling
Please feel free to use the powerpoint as you like and share it widely Please don't change anything in it (if there's anything that needs changing, please write and let me know) When english borrowed words from latin and french, it retained this orthographical rule My linguistics studies often highlight how deeply embedded these historical patterns are in our language structure So, for all practical purposes in standard english vocabulary, 'q' proudly holds the title of the only letter that never finishes a word! I scoured this list and noticed something unusual
Our alphabet contains 26 letters and many, many different words Several words contain silent letters This means that when you pronounce a word, you may not be able to sound it out One or more of the letters in the word is silent The word pneumonia is a great example Many of us know how to.
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