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The result of the move request was: not moved. -- Tavix ( talk) 16:23, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
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magic e – Better title. The "e" in words like "hope", "came", "lime" etc. is not really silent. It modifies the sound of the previous vowel.
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The article claims that phonological vowel length was lost in Middle English, which is of course complete nonsense. The author clearly completely misunderstood open syllable lengthening. Middle English was full of long vowels in closed syllables (līf, knīf, bọ̄k, chīld etc. etc. off the top of my head), and even short vowels in open syllables appear to have always existed.
And in general, the section is completely unsourced. There is plenty of literature on Middle English historical phonology. 88.81.51.28 ( talk) 06:57, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
A fact from Silent e appeared on Wikipedia's
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The result of the move request was: not moved. -- Tavix ( talk) 16:23, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Silent e →
magic e – Better title. The "e" in words like "hope", "came", "lime" etc. is not really silent. It modifies the sound of the previous vowel.
Fish567 (
talk)
03:14, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
The article claims that phonological vowel length was lost in Middle English, which is of course complete nonsense. The author clearly completely misunderstood open syllable lengthening. Middle English was full of long vowels in closed syllables (līf, knīf, bọ̄k, chīld etc. etc. off the top of my head), and even short vowels in open syllables appear to have always existed.
And in general, the section is completely unsourced. There is plenty of literature on Middle English historical phonology. 88.81.51.28 ( talk) 06:57, 11 March 2020 (UTC)