HaggardHawks | Tue Nov 08 11:53:20 +0000 2022
The silent P in RECEIPT is not original in English, but was added retrospectively in the 15–1600s to better align the word with its Latin root, ‘recipere’. For a time, the related words CONCEIT and DECEIT gained a P too (making ‘conceipt’ and ‘deceipt’), but only RECEIPT kept it.