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nife is fine

• gizmo686 8y ago
  Why is there an "e" at the end?
  • asveikau 8y ago
    I'm reminded of how English orthography has that weird thing where the presence of a silent E can seemingly change the vowel in the previous syllable. For example the Tom Lehrer song, "who can turn a can into a cane? Silent E..." So a hypothetical "nife" would never be mistaken for "neef", as "nif" could be.
    • Izkata 8y ago
      Or mistaken for niff. [0] (No, I didn't know this word existed before this moment.) [0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/niff https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/niff