Jump to Last Post 1-7 of 7 discussions (7 posts) 67. peepingtomb posted 8 years ago. From silent letters to doubled letters, the orthography of English seems downright wacky to native and foreign speakers of the language. Copyright © 2020 HubPages Inc. and respective owners.HubPages Inc, a part of Maven Inc. As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls.

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Consider your pronunciation of the following words, and be honest about whether you really say the r's in parentheses: su(r)prise, gove(r)nor, pa(r)ticular, be(r)serk, paraphe(r)nalia, cate(r)pillar, southe(r)ner, entrep(r)eneur, p(r)erogative, interp(r)etation. Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. However, delving into the history of words reveals that the spelling of English makes more sense than first impressions imply. The English Feoverel became February in imitation of the Latin Februarius.

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Both Merriam-Webster and American Heritage dictionaries consider the common pronunciation correct, along with the less common, more traditional standard feb-roo-air-ee. Shelby Babb (San Dee Jota) United States Springdale Arkansas. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links. I have 99 hubs and 98 fans. For some people that big 'w' is enough and they keep the 'r'. I don’t understand why people find it so hard to pronounce February right. However, despite this, the word is correctly pronounced February. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. I have been homeschooling my children since the fall of 2014. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. So if you've had your eye on the Homall S-Racer gaming chair, you’ll find there's currently a coupon that saves you 5 percent, thanks to a simple search.

guide Pronunciation Manual: Have you got a Big Question you'd like us to answer? Now that Prime Day is over, and with Black Friday and Cyber Monday still a few weeks away, online deals may seem harder to come by. In Old English, the name of this month was not February at all, but the aptly-titled 'Solmonað', 'mud-month'. Even more ubiquitous these days is the dreadful “Feb-you-ary”, with a strong “y” sound. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. The close proximity of two [r] sounds and the diphthong [ju] frequently results in the deletion of the initial [r] sound and the common [fɛbjʊəri] pronunciation. English spelling appears inconsistent at first.

This is feature allows you to search the site. Without any official legislation, the country devolved into a jumble of conflicting practices. Very thought-provoking question, though. In American English, the 'R' is often pronounced indeed. This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. Ask away and we will do our best to answer or find someone who can.We try … Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. The practice was dropped almost everywhere after the war, but it was widely resurrected just a few decades later during World War II. Here's a list of some other common silent letters with example words: p: psychic, receipt, psychology b: comb, dumb, numb, climb, doubt, subtle, debt Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Do you also wince at those of us who pronounce the word “Past” as “Passt”, as opposed to “Parst”, I wonder?

Sometime after the Norman Conquest, the Old French 'Feverier' was borrowed into English, which in turn became 'Feoverel'. Despite complaints from uppity prescriptivists of spelling pronunciation, English speakers have been pronouncing the second month of the year as [fɛbjʊəri] for at least the last 150 years.

In February, the first r isn't usually pronounced, so the word sounds more like "Febuary."

... Also, you didn't point out that a silent first r is an alternative pronunciation in AE. During World War I, however, the need to conserve energy—which, at the time, chiefly came from coal—increased, and Germany was the first to give Daylight Saving Time the green light in 1916. ... No, the "r" is not silent.

The short answer is that 'Febryuæri' involves a consonant cluster that is not allowed in modern English. 28 Feb 2020.

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Assimilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimilation_(phonology) Dissimilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissimilation February: https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=February&submit.x=59&submit.y=22 February: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/February February: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February February: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/February Great Vowel Shift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift What’s the Correct Pronunciation of February?

During the 15th century, many words inherited from Middle English started to be given classicising spellings: 'oliphaunt', for example, became elephant (but was still pronounced 'olifont'), and likewise Feoverel became February in imitation of Latin 'Februarius'. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. I’m only glad that I’m the one who initially found it, and since I found and corrected my mistake before anyone else did, it’s technically not a mistake. It also means that everything you write is correct:  you make up your own spewlingz az u gow alung. So the four year old seems to have subconsciously picked up on what I'm doing. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The Old English word for the month was Solmonað.

Different speakers resolved this problem in different ways: some deleted the 'r' to produce 'febyuæri', while other speakers – probably the minority – deleted the 'y', to produce 'februæri'.

The corresponding Roman month Februarius came from the Latin word februum meaning purification from the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 of the old lunar Roman calendar.

I started homeschool preschool with my oldest when she was... Two types of sentences in English are declarative sentences and interrogative sentences.

If we ignore the first R in my last name, nothing changes. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Posted in r/NoStupidQuestions by u/boblikeslettuce • 1 point and 8 comments

I look around the forum and it seems everyone has at least twice as many fans as the go hubs. I actually find that not pronouncing letters helps with understanding.

But it’s not hard to pronounce the word properly – people simply are not taught to do so any more. The correct pronunciation of February also includes the first "r", but there are many occasions that you will hear someone pronouce February without the first "r" sound.

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