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They come from places unknown, slipping into words without a sound, creating havoc for spellers everywhere. They are…silent letters.
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Shepherds
- 00:06
some of them hang out with sheep for the sheer joy of it which of the words is [Shepherd shearing a sheep]
- 00:12
spelled correctly and here the potential answers all right it means the others are all
- 00:15
spelled incorrectly so we've got four words here and all them happen to have
- 00:19
silent letters in their correct spellings which of them left in a letter that [Letters together being told to be quiet]
Full Transcript
- 00:24
shouldn't be there let's start with option A; campaign
- 00:27
don't ask us why but there supposed to be a G in that word right before the end
- 00:31
yeah we know English can be a real pain and that's pain without a G next up asthma [Man attempting to speak English]
- 00:36
well here the word isn't even pronounced correctly when we try to say
- 00:40
it as written so we can pretty much well mix this one right away here it looks [word asthma scribbled out on a page]
- 00:44
like ashma, which is probably when you have trouble breathing around
- 00:48
extinguished campfires after the s'mores are all smoldering in there what about [Man stood by a smoking campfire]
- 00:52
C Shepherd now we're missing a second H in this one it's actually spelled S-H-E-P
- 00:57
H-E-R-D as in herding sheep like Shepherd, sheep-herd.. wow that
- 01:04
actually makes sense the one word that left its silent letter where it belongs [heirloom written on a piece of paper]
- 01:09
is D heirloom we don't pronounce that H but we sure do include it when the
- 01:14
word is written out if you ever see it spelled this way then it's possible some [Shepherd razor's the H off of the word heirloom]
- 01:19
maniacal shepherd got too close to it with the electric razor
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