it would appear that there might be some Americans who don't pronounce the second "f" in "fifth", so it would be more like "fith"
I can confirm that. I lived for three years in a community in western Michigan where *nobody* pronounced the second F in fifth (and they looked at you kind of funny if you did). The resulting pronunciation was *exactly* like "fith". The phenomenon, however, is not particularly widespread.
Update:
I am struggling to think of a genuine standardly-pronounced word with a silent f.
I don't think there are any, unless you count cases where the entire syllable containing the f is routinely omitted (e.g., camouflage). That's really not the same phenomenon as a silent letter.
Then again, several of the ones on the list aren't really the normal "silent letter" phenomenon either...
One that's omitted from the list is the T in tsunami, which has an entirely different linguistic background from the T in depot. Some of the ones on the list have examples that use other letters, e.g., the K in know is exactly the same as the G in gnostic, right down to coming from the same Indo-European root.
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