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Welcome applejuice,
I don't know if there is a name for it, but the situation does exist.
Take, for example, the word TUESDAY, in some parts of the U.S. Tuesday is pronounced Chews-day. The CH is definitely not there, but it is pronounced.
Oh, and as an aside, the way I hear it, the P in raspberry is pronounce; lightly, but pronounced nonetheless. Maybe it's a regional thing.
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And then there's this whole thing with COLONEL being pronounced KERNAL [shrugging-shoulders e]
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