Re: Silent E

<< Irish is dreadful orthagraphically.  It's got all sorts of letters
that
make no sound in some places, make a bunch of different sounds,
change the
sounds of other characters...  >>

Tell me about it! It's also got a very unusual phonology: I believe
it makes distinctions for velarised, palatalised, makes a
dental/alveolo-palatal distinction, and has a crazy orthography:

taoide /t_d_Gid_-_j@/ (it looks better in IPA, though)

_G = velarised, _d = dental, _- = retracted, according to x-sampa...

Eamhain /auwin_-_j/

I can't even make some of the sounds in its phonology...

Imperative