delimiters. In English orthography, many words feature a silent ⟨e⟩ (single, final, non-syllabic ‘e’), most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme. Typically...

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion...

Clusters of consonants may be simplified, producing silent letters; e.g., silent ⟨th⟩ in asthma, silent ⟨t⟩ in Christmas (in conservative RP, it is pronounced...

The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the...

before ⟨i⟩ or ⟨e⟩, as in giant, ginger and geology; or /ʒ/ in some words of French origin, such as rouge, beige and genre. However, silent ⟨k⟩ and ⟨g⟩ occur...

while final ë is marked with a diaeresis to remind English-speakers that it is not silent. Ë is used in Romagnol to represent [ɛː~ɛə], e.g. fradël [fraˈdɛəl~fraˈdɛːl]...

"acute (fem.)" Note that the e is silent in most modern accents; without the diacritic, both the e and the u would be silent, or pronounced as a schwa in...

"rag"), while if a soft rendition is intended it would be followed by a silent ⟨e⟩ (as in "rage"). This alternation has its origins in a historical palatalization...

Zikar-e-Qalbi which is also known as Zikar-e-khafi or silent zikr, is being practiced by Naqshbandi Sufi followers. This way of zikar, Dhikr ذکر, focuses...

Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by American actors Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively. They appear in the View Askewniverse...