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>pyknotic If you're coming up with words I have to Google, I'll stick with my "quite consistent"

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  meekness banknote ... there's a lot of “kn” words where the “k” is pronounced. Most are compounds where the “k” and “n” come from separate component words, or cases where the “k” is from the root word and the “n” from a suffix, or cases where the “k” is part of a “ck”...
  • benj111 3y ago
    As you say, they're compound words. English is a mongrel of a language with more special cases than most of my code. But I don't think the silent k in kn is an example of that. Flammable/inflammable Foxes/oxen. Tomato/potato (one thing I will begrudgingly admit the Americans got right) Where/were/here. Those are actual rough edges.