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SO | Silent Observer | |
SWM | Silent Wave Motor | |
ST | Silent Treatment | |
SSR | Sustained Silent Reading | |
SBD | Silent But Deadly | |
SBD | Silent But Deadly | |
SK | Silent Key | |
SSR | Silent Sustained Reading | |
SS | Silent Service | |
SE | Silent Edition | |
SS | Silent Strike | |
SC | Silent Communication | |
SV | Silent Version | |
SNDN | Silent Night Deadly Night | |
SIR | Silent Information Regulator | |
SS | Super Silent | |
USSR | Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading | |
USSR | Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading | |
LSF | League of Silent Flight | |
SWE | Silent Witness Enterprises | |
TSA | The Silent Assassins | |
WASTE | We Await Silent Tristero's Empire | |
SSC | Silent Speaker Chamber | |
SSR | Super Silent Reading | |
SURF | Silent Uninterrupted Reading for Fun |
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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