- Why C is a useless letter?
- What is the most useless letter?
- What letters are useless in English?
- Why does C exist?
Why C is a useless letter?
Some people teach that this apparently useless letter has a hard sound and a soft sound. That method is an unnecessarily difficult and complicated way to present the letter sounds. C just copies the sound of S or K.
What is the most useless letter?
The letter E has to be the most useless letter in the entire alphabet.
What letters are useless in English?
If you want to know which letters are used least in everyday English, you might agree with Samuel Morse's J, X, and Z. In dictionaries, J, Q, and Z are found the least, but some of the words are rarely used.
Why does C exist?
In the words that came from Latin, the âKâ sound was represented by the letter C. In the words that came from Greek, the âKâ sound was represented by the letter K. And so it has remained ever since. ... Since that time, however, English has imported many French words, so our present-day soft C comes from the French soft C.