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The "o" completely disappears in the phrase "play possum" :-)
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by mertserger (Curate) on Mar 02, 2012 at 08:38 UTC
    But there is no silent O in "possum" though it is possible there might be a missing one, if you consider possum=opossum. It is quite common for words to lose letters over time, like how the Latin "fenestra" became the French "fenêtre". Can you tell I do tech support for a dictionary?
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      See my note elsewhere in this thread.
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