Talk:Silent e

What is "other function or no function"?

For example, in "magazine" the "i" has the function of making the vowel long, but it's not a so-called “long i”. Ghoti (talk) 02:48, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

What about other words?

--24.23.184.20 16:13, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

This is my opinion: Ghoti (talk) 20:16, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * No function: are - corporate - determine - discipline - famine - gone - imagine - medicine - private - breeze - freeze - maize - sneeze
 * No function: come - done - some; however better spellings would be cum, dun, sum.

What is no function?

No function means that the following words are equally easy to read aloud as the ones with correct spelling: corporat - determin - disciplin - famin - gon - imagin - medicin - privat - breez - freez - maiz - sneez

In these cases, no function means that these words are equally difficult to read aloud: com - don - som

Ghoti (talk) 02:17, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

I sorted the words in the section "Other function or no function" in three categories: "no function", "vowel changes but it isn't long" and "vowel is long but it doesn't say its name". Ghoti (talk) 12:37, 9 September 2016 (UTC)