What's the point in a silent p?

[mrs.chappie]

Ya know what I mean - receipt for instance. Why?

Do ya know any other words that have a silent p?

[mrs.chappie]

Who is nicholas anelka?

[terambulan]

kinda em'p'ty question?

[sir.knobby]

Oi mrs silent p nicholas anelka is an ex arsenal player so silent p orf

[mrs.chappie]

Ah knobbs, thought you were gonna say nicholas parsons ... ya know, nicholas parsons shouldn't ride bikes.

[sir.knobby]

And he plays for west ham now who arsenal beat today by 2-0 and I had a twenty squid bet on arsenal beating west ham today by 2-0

[jno]

comes from the same source as recipe, I think. It's the fault of Dr Johnson and his dictionary, which did a great deal to fix English spelling in the 1700s. The P was already not pronounced, but he still included it - and yet he left it out of deceit.

[sir.knobby]

You taking the pea leg

[mrs.chappie]

Thanks for that, jno. Thanks for the other replies too.

Here's another strange one - diarrhoea (sp?)

Why the heck has it got an aitch in it? Very strange.

[joggerjayne]

the 'h' in diarrhoea

is the same as the 'h'

in pooh

[mrs.chappie]

Ooh folks, just realised that this thread is going rapidly down the pan ... toilet humour is just not funny! (Well okay then, sometimes it is, but not this time).

I didn't 'twig' about the toilet connections when I first posted! Ewwwwwwww!!!

[sir.knobby]

Fish