• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • N (redirect from N (letter))
    N, or n, is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others...
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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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  • 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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    However, in Turkish, the phoneme has in most cases been reduced to a silent letter, serving as a vowel-lengthener. In Turkish, the ⟨ğ⟩ (sometimes represented...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • T (redirect from T (letter))
    in Thomas and thyme.) 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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  • 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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  • U (redirect from Letter U)
    'suave'), though it is silent in final ⟨que⟩ (as in 'unique') and in many words with ⟨gu⟩ (as in 'guard'). Additionally, the letter ⟨u⟩ is used in text messaging...
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  • S (redirect from S (letter))
    some words of French origin, ⟨s⟩ is silent, as in 'isle' or 'debris'. The letter ⟨s⟩ is the seventh most common letter in English and the third-most common...
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  • B (redirect from Silent b)
    silent. This occurs particularly in words ending in ⟨mb⟩, such as lamb and bomb, some of which originally had a /b/ sound, while some had the letter ⟨b⟩...
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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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  • 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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  • Roberts), a widower who returns to the eponymous town of Silent Hill upon receiving a letter from his deceased wife Mary, who claims to be waiting there...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • M (redirect from M (letter))
    M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others...
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  • W (redirect from W (letter))
    DUH-bə-yə or /ˈdʌbjə/ DUH-byə, with a silent l. However, "Izzard" was formerly a two-syllable pronunciation of the letter Z. In Brazilian Portuguese, it is...
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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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