Question

📚 Why does the English language have silent letters in words like “knight” or “write”?

Answer 1

it gives flavor

Answer 2

Literally all it does. and change the meaning

Answer 3

the way that it works; when saying Write, having "I" and then a letter like "t", you need "e" to make the "I" sound like "ai" instead of "ih" and with knight, the H makes the G silent, and it applies to every word like it