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Requested move 21 July 2016

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The result of the move request was: not moved. -- Tavix (talk) 16:23, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]



Silent emagic e – Better title. The "e" in words like "hope", "came", "lime" etc. is not really silent. It modifies the sound of the previous vowel. Fish567 (talk) 03:14, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any evidence thst this is better known as magic e?--174.91.187.80 (talk) 05:14, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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The article claims that phonological vowel length was lost in Middle English, which is of course complete nonsense. The author clearly completely misunderstood open syllable lengthening. Middle English was full of long vowels in closed syllables (līf, knīf, bọ̄k, chīld etc. etc. off the top of my head), and even short vowels in open syllables appear to have always existed.

And in general, the section is completely unsourced. There is plenty of literature on Middle English historical phonology. 88.81.51.28 (talk) 06:57, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]