User:Rëdbl Speling/Rüls/Sïlnt e

Sïlnt e or sïlnt fïnl e is a speling patrn in traditionl speling that has 5 üses that can bë exemplifïd with lake (a as /eɪ/), office (c as /s/), give (words dön't end in v), handle (at lëst one vowel per sylabl), and goose (to mark the word as a singülr noun). In Simplifïd Speling wë hav läk (umlaut repläces magic e), ofice (c as /s/), giv (words now mä end in v), handl (a sylabl mä hav nö vowels), goose ("se" sounds /s/), lapse (to mark the word as a singular noun) and love (magic e mäks the vowel chänge its sound).

Magic e repläced bÿ umlaut
English vowel letrs AEIOU can bë clasifïd as having "a long sound" and "a short sound". In practice some of them hav mor sounds, but the cnvention is as folös.

In the first lïn ëch vowel has its "norml" sound. In the secnd lïn ëch vowel has the säm sound as the näm of the letr in thë English alphabet. The sounds of the secnd lïn ar longr than the ones of the first lïn.

An umlaut mäks the vowel "sä its näm", or "mäks the vowel long", wich shoud bë undrstood as moving in the täbl from the first rö to the secnd, and not as lengthning the vowel. Wat is ment bÿ “long E” is not that /iː/ is a long version of /e/, but actüaly "the long sound of the letr E".

Similrly, wat is ment bÿ “short I” is not that /ɪ/ is a short version of /aɪ/, but actüaly "the short sound of the letr I".

Therefor, "the long vowels" actüaly mëns "the long sounds of vowel letrs" or "the sounds of umlauted letrs", and "the short vowels" are "the short sounds of vowel letrs" or "the sounds of plän vowel letrs".

Nöt that in phonetics "long vowel" mëns litrly a vowel that is long, i.e., /ɑː, iː, ɔː, uː/ or /ɜː/.

Exampls:
 * rat vs rät - cap vs cäp - can vs cän
 * bed - hötel - stem - then - get vs thëm - sën - complët
 * bit vs bït - quit vs quït
 * dog - alcohol - shop - lot vs cöd - smök - höm - phön - supös
 * cub vs cüb - cut vs cüt

The patrn vowel + consnant + “e” becomes umlauted vowel. Exampls of exceptions are: colege - machine - letuce.

The cnverse patrn plän vowel = short sound of the vowel is less relïabl.

Umlaut alwäs works
 * mor than one consnant: äbl - chänge - päst; tïtl; nöbl;
 * no consnant: Mä - sundä; bë - fë; lï - tï; dö - tö; clü - isü

Chänge the sound of "c", "g", "s" and "th"
At thë end of a word "c" sounds /k/, "g" sounds /g/, "s" mä sound /z/ and "th" sounds /θ/. A sïlnt e mäks "c" and "s" sound /s/, "g" sound /dʒ/ and "th" sound /ð/.

"ce"

 * advïce - choice - expërience - fäce - letuce - ofice - once - pläce - prïce - police - scärce - service - since

"ge"

 * äge - chänge - charge - nolege - language - large - manage - päge - ränge - stäge - stränge

"se"

 * ending in /s/: abüse - blouse - bäse - cäse - clöse - corse - excüse - goose - house - incrëse - mouse - promise - purchase - purpose - relëse - üse


 * ending in /z/: abüs - blous - caus - chees - clens - clös - disës - excüs - hous - nois - nös - pars - paus - phäs - phräs - plës - rös - surprïs - üs


 * Words that dön't folö this rül: älias - bönus - bus - canvas - cäos - Crismas - föcus - gas - gënius - plus - stätus - status - tenis - versus - vïrus

"se" as /z/
 * lose - Lüise

"the"

 * bäthe - brëthe - clöthe - soothe

Now u and v can bë the last letr in a word

 * /v/: belëv - giv - hav - involv - lëv - liv - mazeltov - perv - recëv - serv
 * Umlaut: arrïv - drïv - lïv - säv - wäv


 * /uː/:argü - blü - continü - dü - emü - flü - gnü - gürü - hïkü - Hindü - isü - menü - Perü - pursü - rescü - revenü - tisü - töfu - trü - valü - yü

Exceptions:
 * "v": above - improve - love - move

Keep a singülr word from ending in s
At the end of the word "s" mä sound /s/ (as in trips) and therefor the othr rül about "se" is redundnt. Hër it is üsd to shö that a word is in the singülr form.


 * colapse - corpse - eclipse - glimpse - lapse

Now a sylabl can hav nö vowels

 * articl - centr - cupl - exampl - handl - litl - litr - midl - pëpl - simpl - singl - thëatr - trubl
 * Umlaut folöd by two consnants: äbl - äcr - bïbl - cäbl - crädl - fäbl - fïbr - ïdl - mäpl - mëtr - nöbl - stäbl - täbl - thëtr - tïtl


 * all words with sufixes "abl" and "ibl": avälabl, possibl

The folöing exampls had a sylabl with nö vowel letrs in traditionl speling:
 * rythm
 * some contractions: coudn't - doesn't - hasn't - isn't - shoudn't - woudn't
 * all words ending in "sm": enthüsiasm - mecnism

In Rëdbl Speling magic e chänges the sound of the vowel

 * See Magic e


 * antiqe - come - corprate - machine - magazine - one - private - some - tecniqe - uniqe

Silent e alwäs has a function

 * ar - determin - disciplin
 * brëz - frëz - mäz - snëz
 * catalog - cheq - colëg - dïalog - giraf - lëg - prögram - tong

There is nö mislëding fïnl e
In this section wë shö words that üsed to hav a mislëding fïnl e.

Önly "ä" sounds /eɪ/ or /eə/
 * /æ/: hav
 * /ɑː/: ar
 * /ə/: climate - corporate - estimate (n.) - purchase - private - separate (adj.)
 * /ɪ/: surface
 * ending in "age" as /ɪdʒ/: advantage - avrage - covrage - damage - encurage - garbage - image - manage - message - morgage - pakage - passage - percentage - storage - vilage

Önly "ë" sounds /iː/ or /ɪə/
 * /ɪ/: colege
 * /eə/: there - where
 * /ɜː/: wer

Önly "ï" sounds /aɪ/
 * /ɪ/: determin - disciplin - engin - examin - fävrit - imagin - justice - medicin - notice - ofice - oposit - practice - premise - promise - service
 * ending in "iv": activ - alternativ - competitiv - conservativ - efectiv - expensiv - execütiv - giv - initiativ - liv - nätiv - negativ - objectiv - perspectiv - positiv - relativ - representativ
 * /iː/: machine - magazine - police

Önly "ö" sounds /əʊ/
 * /ʌ/: above - become - come - income - love - none - one - some
 * /ɒ/ or /ɔː/: gon
 * /uː/: approve - improve - lose - move - prove - remove - whose
 * /ə/: purpose - welcom

Önly "ü" sounds /uː/ or /juː/
 * /ɪ/: letuce - minute (60 seconds)


 * Pronounced final ë
 * as /iː/ or /ɪ/: apostrophë - catastrophë - Chilë - coÿötë - coyötë - karatë - machetë - recipë - sesamë