Is the N in badminton silent?
(See this Wikipedia bit on spelling pronunciation, if you like.) But this doesn’t seem to be the case for badminton, which was named after a castle stately home in England and has always had the ‘n‘ in the place name too.
How is badminton pronounced?
Is the T silent in exactly?
When the T and D sounds come between two other consonant sounds, many Americans will drop them. But when we add the -ly ending, it now comes between two consonants. You’ll hear a lot of native speakers say ‘exactly‘, with no T sound. Exactly, exactly.