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Silent (g)

While not as common, the letter <g> is also usually silent (i.e. it does not reflect any sound) when preceding an at the beginning or end of a word, as in "gnat", "campaign" and "design". In some words borrowed from Romance languages, it may appear within a word, as in "champagne", where it originally denoted the phoneme n.

In addition, the digraph

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