This week's challenge: Think of a well-known seven-letter geographical name in a single word that has just two consonants and yet is pronounced in five syllables. If you know the answer to the ...

However, the consonant combinations “ts” and “ps” aren’t used to start words in English, so the first letters became silent so it would meet the language’s phonological rules.

And according to a blog post by Bowen Kerins for the Art of Problem solving, both the second and third letters in the mystery word are more likely to be vowels than consonants. By far the most ...