In almost all nouns, the letters 's' and 't' are silent if they are the last letters in the word, e.g. le fait, le pas, le secret. There are, however, a few words where these consonants are pronounced and these simply need to be learnt. These words include:
le but goal
le bus bus
le médium medium (word ends in -ium)
la dot dowry
l'os bone (the 's' is pronounced only in the singular)
le pénis penis
l'anus anus (I really have no idea what the deal is with some body parts. Perhaps
the endings -us and -is are taken from Latin)
l'oued wadi
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