The War on Silent Letters

I am not sure where the silent letter came from or why it stuck around. Every day the millions of cumulative man hours spent reaching for the silent letter on a keyboard are wasted. Over 10,000 gallons of ink are spent daily to fashion vowels and consonants of no verbal gravity. Laid end to end, they would encircle the planet four times in a silent and meaningless loop.

I proclaim a jihad on the terror that is the silent letter. The deplorable alphabetical mimes are the scourage of the written language.