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	E - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		E is very often silent in English (silent E), particularly at the ends of words where old noun inflections have been dropped, although even when silent at the end of a word it often causes vowels in the word to be pronounced as long (compare rat and rate).
		E is often a mis-understood letter in the English language, silent in many cases, badly portraited in upper cases and exchanged with Y by many unschooled and illiterate.
		In Romania, E is a symbol of parthenogenesis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/E (889 words)

	Silent letter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In an alphabetic writing system, a silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation.
		Silent letters create problems for both native and non-native speakers of a language, as they make it more difficult to guess the spellings of spoken words or the pronunciations of written words.
		In non-rhotic accents, is silent in such words as hard, feathered; in h-dropping accents, is silent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silent_letter (745 words)

	Encyclopedia: Silent E
		Silent E (sometimes described by teachers as a "magic E") is a writing convention in English spelling: a silent letter e that appears at the end of a word.
		In theory, silent E makes short vowels long, and also marks palatal consonants.
		Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion in 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Silent-E (412 words)

	Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
		Drop the final silent e in the common words are, gone and were: ar, gon, wer.
		Drop the final silent e in the unstressed final short syllables ide, ile, ine, ise, ite and ive: activ, bromid, definit, determin, practis, hostil.
		Drop the silent e after v or z when preceded by a digraph representing a long vowel or a diphthong: achiev, freez, gauz, sneez.
	www.bartleby.com /185/pages/page245.html (532 words)

	Silent Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The art of motion pictures grew into full maturity before silent films were replaced by "talking pictures" or "talkies", and a number of film buffs believe the quality of the cinema actually decreased for a few years, before the new medium of sound was adapted to the movies.
		Since silent films could not take advantage of synchronized sound for dialogue, titles were edited in to clarify the on-screen situation to the cinema audience or to add critical dialog.
		Showings of silent films usually were not actually silent: they were commonly accompanied by live music, frequently improvised by a piano or organ player.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/164/silent-case.html (1101 words)

	Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When final gh is pronounced f substitute f and drop the silent letter of the preceding digraph: enuf, laf, ruf, tuf.
		When gue is final after a consonant, a short vowel or a digraph representing a long vowel or a diphthong drop the silent ue: tung, catalog, harang, leag, sinagog.
		When sc is initial and the c is silent drop it: senery, sented, septer, sience, sissors.
	www.aol.bartleby.com /185/35.html (2127 words)

	Alpha-Read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The best known clue (but not the only one) concerning long vowel sounds is the rule of the silent e: silent e at the end of a word makes the vowel in front of it say its alphabet name.
		Sometimes, silent e is referred to as "magic e" or "tricky e" Whatever it is called, this e at the end of the word has no sound of its own.
		E at the end of a word makes the vowel in front of it say its alphabet name.
	www.alpha-read.com /fyi/fyi_3.html (396 words)

	Spelling: A Lost Art by Linda Schrock Taylor
		Vowels a, e, o, and u usually say their names/long sounds (a, e, o, u) at the end of a syllable (na vy, me, o pen, mu sic).
		Sanseri refers to the #5 Silent final e as the "Odd job E" and explains: "Any reason for a silent E not covered by the first four is lumped into this final category.
		The E is left over from Middle English or a foreign language where the final E was once pronounced.
	www.lewrockwell.com /taylor/taylor79.html (2026 words)

	pronunciationguide.org: French
		silent, except when it follows r or l or n (which in turn must follow something other than r or l or n): then e is pronounced as uh but is very short, and the previous syllable is stressed, e.g.
		These are generally silent at ends of words, except for four particular consonants: c, r, f and l (the consonants in the word "careful"); one exception to this is the final -er, which is pronounced ay, as noted above.
		Except for the letter h, which is silent as in modern French, all consonants are pronounced, even at ends of words.
	www.math.nyu.edu /~wendlc/pronunciation/French.html (946 words)

	Resource Room Spelling: Dropping Silent E when Adding a Suffix
		The principle: since the silent e's "job" is to change a vowel sound, if there is another vowel to take its place, the e can go away.
		It doesn't matter how many syllables there are, or what the vowel coming before the silent e sounds like, or whether there are two consonants ("wasting" drops the e, too).
		There are some exceptions -- when you need to keep the e for some other purpose, such as making a c or g say /s/ or /j/, as in "courageous." And there are some exceptions that are just exceptions -- truly and wholly, for example.
	www.resourceroom.net /readspell/silentedrop.asp (451 words)

	Amazon.com: Silent To The Bone (Jean Karl Books (Hardcover)): Books: E.L. Konigsburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Silent to the Bone, is ample proof of that.
		Silent to the Bone is a novel which will make a person think.
		Silent to the Bone by E.L Konigsburg is one of the best novels I have ever read and I recommend it to all ages, even adults.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689836015?v=glance (2009 words)

	Stringing Machines by Silent Partner
		Silent Partner produces stringing machines with multi inside supports as well as multi outside supports and believes that both systems provide excellent racquet support.
		Silent Partner supports the USRSA and recommends that all enthusiast with an interest in tennis equipment (racquets, strings, stringing machines, stringing technique, etc.) consider joining the organization.
		Breakdown in the electric tensioning unit will be repaired free of charge for a period of one year The warranty on the e.Stringer, CL and FL is extended indefinitely for as long as the customer purchases his or her strings from Silent Partner (minimum yearly purchase $50).
	www.sptennis.com /stringer.asp (6386 words)

	French Grammar
		For verbs containing a silent e in the last syllable of the verb stem (i.e., the second-to-last syllable of the infinitive), that e becomes è for those forms where this syllable precedes another silent e.
		This rule is really not so complex as it sounds; in effect, for these verbs e becomes è in all forms of the present tense except for vous and nous: The conjugations of -er verbs with silent e's in the future tense are also affected.
		This rule is really not so complex as it sounds; in effect, for these verbs e becomes è in all forms of the conditional tense except for vous and nous: The conjugations of -er verbs with silent e's in the future tense are also affected.
	www.adyn.com /teacher/html/French.html (4568 words)

	made you mad
		Children must recognize that the silent "e" at the end enables the other vowel to be of the long vowel sound.
		Also needed, a list of words to be called out to the students to listen to and decide if the silent e is needed at the end or not.
		Then place the e at the end of the word as the new word is being pronounced so theta the auditory change will e visual as well.
	www.auburn.edu /~murraba/guides/mccarthabr.html (518 words)

	français interactif – phonétique, chapitre onze
		In French, the letter e is often silent, such as at the end of a word, as in collège.
		When the e is pronounced, as for example the vowel in the last word of suivez-le, it is represented by the phonetic symbol /ə/.
		Phrase-final e muet is always dropped, unless it is the direct object pronoun le.
	www.laits.utexas.edu /fi/html/pho/11.html (231 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Digraphs starting with E are common in many languages to indicate diphthongs or show a different value of E, such as EA or EE for // or // in English, EI for // in English or // in German, or EU for // in English or // in German.
		* The letter e is often used as a prefix (with or without a subsequent hyphen) for other words to imply "electronic", such as e-mail or e-commerce.
		* E is also a programming language available for the Amiga.
	www.mindwallet.com /wiki/e (884 words)

	[No title]
		Silent Hill 3 Game Script By: Niai Mitch E-Mail: niai_mitch@hotmail.com (Put the words Silent Hill3 in the message title please) Started: 31st May 2003 Last update: 18th June 2003 Version: 6.5 ----------------- GUIDE INFORMATION ----------------- This FAQ is a transcript of all spoken character dialogue throughout the game Silent Hill3.
		I’d be more than happy for you to put this on your website, as long as I am being given full credit for it, but please e-mail me at niai_mitch@hotmail.com before doing so.
		Mission briefing - - - - - - - - - - Heather are Douglas are in a Silent* Hill Motel.
	www.ps2fantasy.com /games/silent_hill_3/guides/silent_hill_3_script.txt (8293 words)

	Simpler Spelling Word of the Day ARCHIVE (Sept.-Dec. 2004)
		There are two silent — that is, needless — letters in "pneumonia", the P and the E. In French, a language that is even more stupidly spelled than English, with even more silent letters, the P in "pneu" (a slang term for a pneumatic tire) actually is pronounced.
		E followed immediately by a consonant, however, is unambiguous, so let's just drop the needless A and write "ded" and "hed".
		Plainly a silent letter is a needless letter, but traditional spelling litters the language with thousands of silent letters that people have to try to memorize, since there's no way to figure out what letter must be silent or even if there is a silent letter in a given word.
	www.geocities.com /sswordday/arc04-4Q.html (6828 words)

	E - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Digraphs starting with E are common in many languages to indicate diphthongs or show a different value of E, such as EA or EE for /iː/ or /eɪ/ in English, EI for /eɪ/ in English or /aɪ;/ in German, or EU for /juː/ in English or /ɔɪ;/ in German.
		In finance, E is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol ] for ENI Spa
		In symbolic logic, $\exists$ (a backwards E) is the symbol for "there exists...", called the existential quantifier.
	en.freepedia.org /E.html (898 words)

	beginning reading
		At first the silent e might be hard to see and understand but as we go through the lesson and you become more familiar with it, you will be able to have a grasp at why the silent e is so important and needed in our words.
		Notice that each word has a silent e on the end but more importantly when we say the words notice that the vowel in the middle of the word is long.
		Now let's review what vowels say without the silent e the i in bik, dic, ric and glid says i=/i/, without the silent e the a in gam, trad, flam, and fac says a=/a/, and without the silent 'e' the o in clon and jok says o=/o/.
	www.auburn.edu /~murraba/elucid/ramseybr.html (927 words)

	Counseling Center - Spelling Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When a word ends in a silent E, the E is dropped before a suffix beginning with a vowel.
		There are some exceptions, but usually there is a good reason for keeping the "e" in an exceptional case, e.g., canoeing preserves the e because of the pronunciation; dyeing and singeing keep the e to differentiate them from dying and singing.
		Special case - when the word ends in a double e, the final E is not dropped.
	www.twu.edu /o-sl/counseling/SelfHelp054.html (334 words)

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		Lesson 3: Words Ending in Silent e Check Your Prior Knowledge On a separate sheet of paper, write the word that is spelled correctly in each pair.
		Therefore, according to this rule, the e in the word receiving the suffix is dropped.
		In the majority of cases, when a suffix beginning with a consonant is added to a word ending in silent e, the e is retained.
	www.hadley-school.org /Shared/sample_lessons/DOC/AEN651.doc (2489 words)

	JIMMY AKIN.ORG: Beyond Silent E
		Silent E is an interesting phenomenon in English orthography.
		Thing is, silent E didn't used to be silent.
		Our English-speaking forebears used to pronounce those Es, which is how they got into the words in the first place.
	www.jimmyakin.org /2005/01/beyond_silent_e.html (1063 words)

	Skill Builder Activities: Silent "e" Phonics Rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Very often when a word ends with the silent “e” it makes the vowel in the middle of the word say its name.
		One rule that is often true in your reading is that if we see this silent “e” at the end of a word, there is a good chance that the vowel in the middle will have the long vowel sound.
		If you can hear the long vowel sound in the middle of the word and it ends with the silent letter “e”, then that word follows this rule.
	chd.gse.gmu.edu /LiteracyAccess/prototype/read/activities/phonics1.htm (145 words)

	MyDD :: Abandoning Gun Control
		As long as gun owners as a group can be swung to the GOP by demonizing Democrats as 'those idiot fuzzy-minded do-gooders who want to take away all the guns', then it's an issue.
		Silent E - I agree overall, but have one concern.
		You say that we are "far more likely to die in a car accident than from a firearm." However, there are roughly 41,000 car accident deaths per year, compared with roughly 33,000 deaths by firearm.
	www.mydd.com /story/2004/11/17/14724/397 (3807 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: French language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Doubling a final consonant and adding a silent e at the end of a word (e.g.
		When "n" or "m" follows a vowel combination, the "n" and "m" become silent and cause the preceding vowel to become nasalized (i.e.
		Final consonants are generally silent, except when the following word begins with a vowel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fr/French_language.htm (3901 words)

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