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  2. Silent e - Wikipedia

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    Silent e , like many conventions of written language that no longer reflect current pronunciations, was not always silent. In Chaucer's Balade, the first line does not scan properly unless what appears to current eyes to be a silent e is pronounced: Hyd, Absolon, thy giltè tresses clerè. Gilte ends in the same sound as modern English Malta.

  3. Old English phonology - Wikipedia

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    Long consonants are also called geminate consonants (or just "geminates") from the Latin word geminus 'twin, double'. [4] Geminate consonants were typically preceded by a stressed short vowel and followed by a vowel or sonorant, e.g. cynnes 'kin' (genitive), bettra 'better'. [5]

  4. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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    This period includes changes in late Proto-Germanic, up to about the 1st century. Only a general overview of the more important changes is given here; for a full list, see the Proto-Germanic article. Unstressed word-final /a/, /e/ and /o/ were lost. Early PGmc *barta > late PGmc *bart "you carried (sg)". Word-final /m/ became /n/.

  5. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  6. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  7. Phonological history of Old English - Wikipedia

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    In an unstressed open syllable, /i/ and /u/ (including final /-u/ from earlier /-oː/) were lost when following a long syllable (i.e. one with a long vowel or diphthong, or followed by two consonants), but not when following a short syllable (i.e. one with a short vowel followed by a single consonant). [21]

  8. Epenthesis - Wikipedia

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    The second is [e], connecting stems that have historically been consonant stems to their case endings: nim+n → nimen. In Standard Finnish, consonant clusters may not be broken by epenthetic vowels; foreign words undergo consonant deletion rather than addition of vowels: ranta (' shore ') from Proto-Germanic *strandō. However, modern loans ...

  9. Phonological history of English consonants - Wikipedia

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    The initial consonant in the word finger in traditional dialects of England. Initial fricative voicing is a process that occurs in some traditional accents of the English West Country , where the fricatives /f/ , /θ/ , /s/ and /ʃ/ are voiced to [v] , [ð] , [z] and [ʒ] when they occur at the beginning of a word.