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  • William 'the Silent'
    30 B (3 words) - 12:18, 2 August 2009
  • William the Silent
    30 B (3 words) - 12:18, 2 August 2009
  • Silent '-e-'
    The so-called silent '-e-' is a usage of the [[E (grapheme)]] in English purely as a spelling co
    458 B (71 words) - 06:42, 12 September 2013

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  • Balk - baulk
    ...ion: both '''balk''' and '''baulk''' may be pronounced with the 'l' either silent or sounded, i.e., either {{IPA|bɔːk ''or'' bɔːlk}}.
    2 KB (326 words) - 15:31, 19 April 2015
  • Tmesis
    '''Tmesis''' - pronounced ter-MEE-sis or, with the initial 't' silent, MEE-sis, {{IPA|tə 'miː sɪs ''or'' 'miː sɪs}} - is classified as a [[F
    1 KB (147 words) - 10:32, 23 September 2018
  • Magdalen - Magdalene
    ...eems to have settled on a preference for '''Magdalen''', without the final silent '-e'. AWE's advice is to decide on one (the one with which you feel most co
    4 KB (581 words) - 09:21, 6 April 2018
  • Moot - mute
    ...[[adjective]] which means 'dumb' - unable to speak. (You can usually use 'silent' instead.)
    1 KB (182 words) - 11:55, 29 May 2015
  • Trait
    ...ld, traditionally, be pronounced in the French manner, with the final '-t' silent, 'tray' ({{IPA|tre}}, ''or, in a more native English-speaker's realization'
    646 B (101 words) - 17:46, 23 August 2015
  • H with indefinite article
    ...be used with '''a''' - and it usually is, except where the '-h-' itself is silent, as in 'hour', which is a [[homophone]] of 'our', and 'honour', etc. Here, ...e. Use '''an''' for words beginning with '-h-' only where the '-h-' is <u>silent</u> - is not pronounced. In front of an '-h-' that you actually pronounce,
    2 KB (399 words) - 17:30, 19 August 2018
  • Fascist
    ...Italian way, like '-sh-' - 'FASH-ist' ({{IPA|fæ ˈʃɪst}}): the '-c-' is silent.
    2 KB (239 words) - 16:06, 18 March 2015
  • Fracas
    ...the tradition is to sound as like French as possible - the final '-s-' is silent, and the two syllables are equally [[stress]]ed {{IPA|ˈfræ kɑː}}. In A
    887 B (150 words) - 12:00, 19 March 2015
  • Noll - knoll
    '''Knoll''' and '''Noll''' look similar - the '-k-' in the former is [[silent]] - but they are not [[homophone]]s. They are easy to keep apart, if you ar
    2 KB (283 words) - 21:41, 27 August 2015
  • Paradigm
    ...r English pattern. The solution is to note that in English the '-g-' is [[silent]], but has the effect of making the vowel sound like 'eye', or 'I'. The wo
    1 KB (201 words) - 10:59, 4 April 2015
  • Indict
    ...urt of law, and its related [[noun]] '''indictment''', the letter '-c-' is silent. Its effect is to make sure that the vowel is pronounced as in 'eye' or 'I'
    476 B (75 words) - 21:54, 7 September 2018
  • Apophthegm
    .... Both are pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, and the '-g-' silent: 'APP-oh-thim', {{IPA|ˈap ə θə (''or'' ɪ)m}}.
    400 B (57 words) - 20:27, 28 November 2021
  • Syllable
    ...foreign language it is harder to be sure. In English, the large number of silent 'e's at the ends of words, and in other places - can make it hard to decide
    1 KB (188 words) - 13:01, 23 January 2018
  • Acetic - aesthetic - ascetic
    * '''Ascetic'''s (pronounced with a 'silent '-c-', and the stress on the 'short' second vowel, 'uh-SET-ik', {{IPA|ə ('
    3 KB (394 words) - 00:46, 24 October 2016
  • Diphthong
    ...sound in 'boil' or the '-ou-' in 'ouch!'; a single letter (often with a [[silent '-e-']] after the syllable, as in 'made' or 'wide'); or two of the same let
    3 KB (475 words) - 13:00, 5 February 2016
  • Consonant
    ...letter combination, like '''-th-''' and '''-sh-''' - and this apart from [[silent letter]]s.)
    3 KB (435 words) - 07:45, 31 May 2011
  • Hors d'oeuvre
    ...se, often mis-spelled. As for pronunciation, just do your best: the 's' is silent, and English speakers don't usually bother with the 'vre'.
    456 B (74 words) - 15:11, 3 November 2009
  • Rite de passage
    ...d precisely the same way as the singular - the '-s-' in '''''rites''''' is silent.
    1 KB (206 words) - 18:36, 19 March 2021
  • Raison d'être
    ...and the sound of 'get' as the vowel in ''être'', whose final '-e' is not silent. ({{IPA|ɜtʁ<sup>ə</sup>}}.)
    548 B (87 words) - 15:51, 9 April 2015
  • Middle English (characteristics)
    ...lisation of consonants, particularly in pronouncing many letters that are 'silent' in Modern English, e.g. '''kn-''', '''-gh-''' and '''wr-'''.
    4 KB (705 words) - 12:01, 26 May 2016
  • Spelling pattern -mb
    When the letter ''''-b'''' follows ''''-m'''' at the end of a word, it is silent - the sound is just 'M'. Examples include:
    1 KB (172 words) - 09:29, 12 May 2008
  • Antony - Anthony
    ...the period, Withycombe adds magisterially, "The ''h'' is, '''of course''', silent, but there is some '''danger''' nowadays of a spelling pronunciation (alrea
    1 KB (219 words) - 15:06, 1 March 2017
  • Disciple
    The word '''disciple''' (the '-c-' is silent, {{IPA|dɪs ˈaɪ pəl}}) is derived from the [[Latin]] ''discipulus'', 'le
    1 KB (189 words) - 10:33, 29 October 2015
  • Apostle
    *An '''Apostle''' (pronounced with a silent '-t'-, {{IPA|æ (''or'' ə) ˈpɒs <sup>ə</sup>l}}, 'e[r]-POSS-el') is pri ...with [one or more] Apostles' is '''apostolic''', in which the '-t-' is NOT silent, and the stress is on the third, not the second, syllable: 'a-post-OLL-ic',
    3 KB (391 words) - 13:56, 19 October 2017
  • Apostle - epistle
    ...are pronounced similarly, with the stress on the second syllable and with silent '-t'-: {{IPA|æ (''or'' ə) ˈpɒs <sup>ə</sup>l}} and /ɛ (''or'' ə) ˈp
    2 KB (393 words) - 11:21, 31 May 2016
  • Discipline
    '''Discipline''' is pronounced with a silent '-c-'. The first syllable is stressed, and the three syllables all have the
    3 KB (523 words) - 19:44, 3 December 2019
  • Gateau - gateaux - gâteau - gâteaux
    ...ion of both gateau and gateaux is 'gat-oh'. (The '-x-' is [[silent letters|silent]].) In French, there is no perceptible difference in stress between the two
    1 KB (241 words) - 17:25, 3 May 2015
  • Reporting clause
    ...e'''. There are many in this category, including some whose 'utterance' is silent, like
    1 KB (215 words) - 18:00, 6 May 2008
  • Bid (irregular verb)
    ...ion', formed by the misunderstanding that the final '-e-' was originally [[silent]]; although early writers may have intended a division into two syllables,
    1 KB (159 words) - 17:23, 16 February 2017
  • Knit
    The [[verb]] 'to '''knit'''<nowiki>'</nowiki> ( the 'k-' is silent; 'knit' is a [[homophone]] of 'nit') means one process for making textile f
    1 KB (159 words) - 16:21, 6 June 2022
  • Tailed rhyme
    :Yonder Clouden's silent towers,
    2 KB (327 words) - 03:43, 21 February 2019
  • Spenserian stanza
    :::And silent was the flock in woolly fold.
    3 KB (451 words) - 16:08, 6 September 2008
  • Whist
    ...writing the sound that parents make to young children to remind them to be silent. (This noise is also used by many older groups to younger groups to ask for
    873 B (140 words) - 01:25, 5 March 2018
  • Orange (dynasty)
    ...The House of Orange has had great prestige and power since '''William 'the Silent'''' of Orange (ruled 1544-1584) led the revolt which eventually won the ind
    2 KB (269 words) - 09:34, 11 October 2015
  • Rapport (pronunciation)
    ...nounce it in an approximately French way: with a silent '-t', and a nearly silent '-r-': 'rap-PO<sup>r</sup>', {{IPA|ræ ˈpɔ<sup>r</sup>}}.
    331 B (53 words) - 00:04, 14 August 2015
  • Noblesse Oblige
    ...with the final vowel '-i-' sounding like an English '-EE-', the final '-e' silent, and the final consonant with a soft '-j-' sound like the middle consonant
    1 KB (173 words) - 10:53, 30 March 2021
  • Campbell
    The name '''Campbell''' has a silent '-p-' - which should, notwithstanding its absence in pronunciation, <u>alwa
    1 KB (229 words) - 13:49, 6 January 2016
  • Epistle
    'An '''epistle'''<nowiki>'</nowiki> - pronounced with the 't' silent, {{IPA|ɪ 'pɪ səl}} - means 'a letter', in the sense of a written communi
    1 KB (213 words) - 10:21, 4 March 2015
  • Margot
    ...e like that of the [[past tense]] 'got', until Asquith said, "The '-t-' is silent, as in Harlow" - deliberately (and rudely) pretending to assume that the ot
    700 B (103 words) - 11:56, 26 August 2015
  • Thos
    ...like that in 'think' ({{IPA|θ}}), unlike '''Thomas''', where the '-h-' is silent, is occasionally used as an informal familiar shortening. Now that the writ
    516 B (81 words) - 21:43, 27 August 2015
  • Ungaretti
    :the silent silvering of a cloud
    4 KB (704 words) - 15:44, 15 January 2015
  • Palindrome
    ...me''' - pronounced with the stress on the first syllable and the final 'e' silent, {{IPA|ˈpæl ɪn drəʊm}} - is a word or phrase which is the same whether
    3 KB (543 words) - 19:01, 30 August 2015
  • Passion
    ...nd deaths of [[martyr]]s as their '''passions'''. A highly-esteemed French silent film (1928) about [[Saint Joan]] was called ''La passion de Jeanne d'Arc''
    3 KB (534 words) - 15:35, 30 January 2015
  • Malcolm
    '''Malcolm''' is a male [[forename]], pronounced with the second '-l-' silent: 'MAL-come', {{IPA|ˈmæl kəm}}. It is the English spelling of the [[Gaeli
    354 B (53 words) - 11:24, 2 September 2015
  • Stereotype
    ...ed) like that of 'get', and the second like the 'i-' of 'it' (the third is silent): the '-o-' is a [[schwa]] ('STERR-y-er-type', {{IPA|ˈstɛr ɪ ə taɪp}})
    2 KB (343 words) - 23:42, 17 February 2018
  • Gnosticism
    ...d the [[adjective]] ''''Gnostic'''' - both pronounced with the initial 'g' silent, NOS-ti-sizm, {{IPA|'nɒs tɪ ,sɪ zəm}}, and NOS-tik, {{IPA|'nɒs tɪk}}
    3 KB (417 words) - 11:04, 15 February 2015
  • Ave Maria
    ...anslated as 'Hail!'. It is pronounced with two syllables - the '-e' is not silent: 'AH-vay', {{IPA|'ɑːve}}}.} Since the [[Reformation]], it has largely bee
    2 KB (293 words) - 18:30, 4 November 2021
  • Nôtre Dame
    ...er with a heart of gold was memorably poortrayed in two films, the first a silent film of 1923 directed by Wallace Worsley, produced by Laemmle and Thalberg
    1 KB (231 words) - 18:39, 3 January 2019
  • Hymn
    A '''hymn''' (the '-n' is silent: 'hymn' sounds like the common English [[personal pronoun]] 'him' - the two
    1 KB (220 words) - 12:24, 7 June 2021
  • Mole
    ...In German, ''mol'' is the full word. When it was adopted in English, the [[silent '-e']] was added to maintain a consistency in pronunciation. The [[adjectiv
    8 KB (1,333 words) - 11:25, 30 March 2020

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