"Gautam Majumdar" wrote in message
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The May 2004 issue of Scientific American has an article about gas
depleted hot jupiters which are named Chthonians (page 13). How to
pronunciate it ? Does "Ch" or "th" go silent ?
According to the dictionary (dictionary.com), the "Ch" is silent.