Timeline for When to pronounce 'e'?
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| Feb 4, 2013 at 11:56 | history | edited | J.R.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
oops - wrong word!
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| Feb 4, 2013 at 9:53 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | @hippietrail: It would be foolish to argue with you, because we are both "right". The answer I gave is at a more basic level, but the point you make is valid, and I've amended my response to account for it. I suppose this really highlights how it serves an O.P. well to elaborate in their question, and use specific examples when possible. Had a few sample words been given in the question, it would have been easy to understand exactly what the O.P. meant by "pronounce the ‘e’ or not." | |
| Feb 4, 2013 at 9:48 | history | edited | J.R.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a paragraph about the two possible interpretations of "pronounce" and the "silent e"
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| Feb 4, 2013 at 2:13 | comment | added | hippietrail |
I'm not sure if linguists or others in related technical fields would call the "e" in -VCe "silent e". If they do I would regard it as unfortunate. Because rather than being silent it is part of the spelling of the vowel sounds. In these sounds the written vowel "wraps" the consonant so that the "a" and "e" in "pane" work together to produce the same sound as in "pain" rather than the sound in "pan". It seems less wrong to me to call the "e" in "since" a silent e, but it is still working in combination with the "c". This is quite different from say the silent "k" in "knock".
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| Feb 3, 2013 at 4:01 | vote | accept | Giuseppe Lombardi | ||
| Feb 3, 2013 at 3:34 | history | answered | J.R.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |