This is one way to be rid of the extraneous vowel in oesophagus.*
https://t.co/5jgCQYXSMr
— Emma Manzini (@EmmaManzini) September 10, 2026
If one is interested in extraneous vowels we have on offer "The Plague That Broke English (And Why the Founding Fathers Didn’t Sound British)" with the outro:
Okay, but why does the word Queue have four silent vowels?