silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation. In linguistics, a silent letter is...
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Silent Letter is the eighth studio album by American folk rock duo America, released by Capitol Records in June 1979. It was the first America studio...
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H (redirect from H (letter))
in Italian and French. In English, ⟨h⟩ occurs as a single-letter grapheme (being either silent or representing the voiceless glottal fricative /h/ and in...
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indicate that the ⟨e⟩ is not silent and does not affect the preceding vowel (as in Jesse and posse). In English, the "letter name" of a vowel is its long...
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Boomers Silent letter, a letter in a word which is not pronounced Silent Pool, a lake in Surrey, United Kingdom List of people known as the Silent Silence...
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dialects, the ng in strength and length is simply pronounced /n/, with g a silent letter, and the ng is otherwise pronounced /ŋ/ in those words. Americanist...
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However, in Turkish, the phoneme has in most cases been reduced to a silent letter, serving as a vowel-lengthener. In Turkish, the ⟨ğ⟩ is known as yumuşak...
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Greek alphabet (redirect from Greek letter)
Although it is not a diacritic, the comma has a similar function as a silent letter in a handful of Greek words, principally distinguishing ό,τι (ó,ti,...
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L (redirect from El (letter))
is often silent in such words as walk or could (though its presence can modify the preceding vowel letter's value), and it is usually silent in such words...
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sounds used to be pronounced in Old and Middle English. The letter ⟨k⟩ is normally silent (i.e. it does not reflect any sound) when it precedes an ⟨n⟩...
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laying the basis for later environmental actions. The impetus for Silent Spring was a letter written in January 1958 by Carson's friend, Olga Owens Huckins...
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in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill 2 centers on James Sunderland, a widower who journeys to the town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his...
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the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 4: The Room, were developed by an internal group called Team Silent, a development...
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number 56 on the charts. America's first studio album without Peek, Silent Letter, was released in June 1979 on their new label, Capitol Records. The...
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N (redirect from N (letter))
often silent when they precede an ⟨n⟩ at the beginning of an English word. Examples include gnome, knife, mnemonic, and pneumonia. The letter N is the...
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Silent Hill: The Short Message is a 2024 psychological horror game co-developed by Konami Digital Entertainment and HexaDrive and published by Konami....
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English alphabet (category Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes)
(except when silent) they represent vowels, although I and U represent consonants in words such as "onion" and "quail" respectively. The letter Y sometimes...
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T (redirect from T (letter))
negotiation, and Croatia. In a few words of modern French origin, the letter T is silent at the end of a word; these include croquet and debut. In the orthographies...
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group utilized two producers—Matthew McCauley and Fred Mollin. While Silent Letter was recorded by Bunnell, Beckley and their backing band (Willie Leacox...
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Roberts), a widower who returns to the eponymous town of Silent Hill upon receiving a letter from his deceased wife Mary (Salóme Gunnarsdóttir [de]),...
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Æ (redirect from Ash (letter))
consonant letter, except for ðr when pronounced like gr (except as below) a rather open [eː] when directly followed by the sound [a], as in ræðast (silent ð)...
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Latin-script alphabet (section Letter inventory)
stress-accent placement, while the last forces the pronunciation of a normally-silent letter) are not. Digraphs in some languages may be separately included in the...
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separated from his soulmate and receives a mysterious letter that leads him back to a town called Silent Hill, where he hopes to find her. However, he discovers...
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K (redirect from K (letter))
this influence carried over into Old English. The letter usually represents /k/ in English. It is silent when it comes before ⟨n⟩ at the start of a stem...
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character of Silent Hill 2. His connection to Silent Hill is a letter from his wife Mary that arrives just after her death. The letter gradually fades...
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F (redirect from F (letter))
F, or f, is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide...
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Sephardi Hebrew (section Letter pronunciation)
communities from Italy, Greece and Turkey, he is not realized as [h] but as a silent letter because of the influence of Italian, Judaeo-Spanish and (to a lesser...
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Aleph (redirect from Aleph (letter))
commonly o/a) or is silent. In the Ancient South Arabian alphabet, 𐩱 appears as the seventeenth letter of the South Arabian abjad. The letter is used to render...
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E (redirect from E (letter))
In unstressed syllables, this letter is usually pronounced either as /ɪ/ or /ə/. In other cases, the letter is silent, generally at the end of words...
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