Silent eIn English orthography, many words feature a silent (single, final, non-syllabic ‘e’), most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme. Typically it represents a vowel sound that was formerly pronounced, but became silent in late Middle English or Early Modern English. In a large class of words, as a consequence of a series of historical sound changes, including the Great Vowel Shift, the presence of a suffix on the end of a word influenced the development of the preceding vowel, and in a smaller number of cases it affected the pronunciation of a preceding consonant.
L-vocalizationL-vocalization, in linguistics, is a process by which a lateral approximant sound such as l, or, perhaps more often, velarized ɫ, is replaced by a vowel or a semivowel. There are two types of l-vocalization: A labiovelar approximant, velar approximant, or back vowel: [ɫ] > [w] or [ɰ] > [u] or [ɯ] A front vowel or palatal approximant: [l] > [j] > [i] Examples of L-vocalization can be found in many West Germanic languages, including English, Scots, Dutch, and some German dialects.
Anglais internationalAnglais international (en anglais international English) est l'expression employée pour décrire la langue anglaise pratiquée par de nombreux locuteurs, non nécessairement anglophones, à travers le monde. Cette expression désigne aussi les variantes de l'anglais parlées à travers le monde ou encore une variante qui serait voulue comme anglais de référence. Il s'agit d'un exemple de langue anglaise simplifiée construite spontanément et ne violant pas les règles de l'anglais classique.
