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Are there any silent letters in Latin?



I haven't heard any.

Seriously, for some directors, the initial H is never pronounced.

As to the pronunciation of vowels, if we ever sang an e as "eh" we would get a gentle chewing out by our director. What Nuncle gave us was Classical Latin pronunciation as normally taught these days. What you sang in church was ecclesiastical Latin, and probably Italinate ecclesiastical Latin. Quite a different beast from Classical.