Did you forget ann ar?dic - for Antarctic. What is that ?d sound? WHY is that sound? Oh and eeeand. The word and used to be monosyllabic. I bet there are a li

Did you forget ann ar?dic - for Antarctic. What is that ?d sound? WHY is that sound? Oh and eeeand. The word and used to be monosyllabic. I bet there are a list of words where the loss of each of the 26 letters can be lamented. For example (off the top of my head), the a in head, the b in dumb, the first c in necklace, the d in handsaw ...