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Term | Definition | Rating |
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SSSS | SSSS Stands for Silent Sound | |
SRA | Silent Running Audio | |
RESH | Resident Evil Silent Hill | |
JSB | Jay and Silent Bob | |
SAVERS | Silent Affirmation Visualization Exercise Reading and Scribing | |
SPK | Silent Party Kings | |
SRA | Silent Reading Assignment | |
MNSP | Mixed Nerve Silent Period | |
ANSO | Automatic Night Silent Option | |
GMSP | God My Silent Partner | |
S-Quad | Silent Sound Spread Spectrum | |
SI | Silent Infarction | |
SI | Silent Ischaemia | |
SMI | Silent Myocardial Infarction | |
SMI | Silent Myocardial Ischaemia | |
SURUS | Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure | |
HCWBS | How Can We Be Silent | |
JSBSB | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | |
SCIMP | Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol | |
SATY | Silent All These Years | |
DSS | Digital Silent Salesman | |
PLASMA | Powerful and Economic Lightweight Accurate Silent Mighty Advanced | |
QSSI | Quick Start and Silent Idling System | |
SSD | Super Silent Diesel | |
SURUS | Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure |
What does silent e mean?
- Silent e
- In English orthography, many words feature a silent ⟨e⟩ (single, final, non-syllabic ‘e‘), most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme. Typically it represents a vowel sound that was formerly pronounced, but became silent in late Middle English or Early Modern English. In a large class of words, as a consequence of a series of historical sound changes, including the Great Vowel Shift, the presence of a suffix on the end of a word influenced the development of the preceding vowel, and in a smaller number of cases it affected the pronunciation of a preceding consonant. When the inflection disappeared in speech, but remained as a historical remnant in the spelling, this silent ⟨e⟩ was reinterpreted synchronically as a marker of the surviving sounds. This can be seen in the vowels in word-pairs such as rid and ride , in which the presence of the final, unpronounced ⟨e⟩ appears to alter the sound of the preceding ⟨i⟩. An example with consonants is the word-pair loath (loʊθ) and loathe (loʊð), where the ⟨e⟩ can be understood as a marker of a voiced ⟨th⟩. As a result of this reinterpretation, the ⟨e⟩ was added by analogy in Early Modern English to many words which had never had a pronounced ⟨e⟩-inflection, and it is used in modern neologisms such as bike, in which there is no historical reason for the presence of the ⟨e⟩ other than the need to mark the pronunciation of the preceding vowel. Although Modern English orthography is not entirely consistent here, the correlation is common enough to allow a rule-of-thumb to be used to explain the spelling, especially in early schooling, where a silent ⟨e⟩ which has this effect is sometimes called a magic ⟨e⟩ or bossy ⟨e⟩. Structured Word Inquiry uses the term replaceable ⟨e⟩ for the single final nonsyllabic ⟨e⟩.
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