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== '''[[Silent letters in English]]''' ==
== '''[[Wonders of the world]]''' ==
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Various lists of the '''Wonders of the World''' have been compiled throughout history. The most well known are the [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]. These lists have been compiled over the ages to catalogue and to categorize the most spectacular man-made constructions and natural phenomena in the world. The number seven was chosen because the Greeks believed it to be the representation of perfection and plenty, and later was usually retained in analogy to conform with this ancient practice.


'''Silent letters''' constitute a notorious phenomenon '''in English''': in '''wréstle''', for example, only four out of the seven letters are actually sounded (*résl), and there can be strings of them in place names, exemplified by the trio '''Léicester, Glóucester''' and '''Worcester''', pronounced '''Léster''', *Glóster and *Wùster. (''The accents show stress and pronunciation, see [[English spellings]]; * is placed before an incorrect spelling.'')
==Seven Wonders of the Ancient World==
{{Image|Great Pyramid of Giza, 2011.jpg|right|300px|The [[Great Pyramid of Giza]]}}
:''Main Article:[[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]''
The historian [[Herodotus]] (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar [[Callimachus]] of [[Cyrene]] (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of [[Alexandria]], made early lists of Seven wonders but their writings have not survived, except as references. The seven wonders included:
*[[Great Pyramid of Giza]]
*[[Hanging Gardens of Babylon]]
*[[Statue of Zeus at Olympia]]
*[[Temple of Artemis at Ephesus]]
*[[Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus]]
*[[Colossus of Rhodes]]
*[[Lighthouse of Alexandria]]


Silent letters can be misleading, as in '''T'''ha'''îland''' and '''î'''s'''land''', which rhyme, or they can be easy to ignore ("redundant"), as in w'''róng''', '''y'''e'''ôman''', and '''lô'''w.
''[[Wonders of the world|.... (read more)]]''


They can serve to distinguish between words that sound the same:
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'''knôw''' ''knowledge'' = '''nô''' ''negative
 
'''knót''' ''tie'' = '''nót''' ''negative
 
'''wráp''' ''parcel'' = '''ráp''' ''knock, talk
 
'''wrîte''' ''read'' = '''rîght''' ''correct'' = '''rîte''' ''ritual
 
'''chéck''' ''verify'' = [[British English|BrE]] '''chéque''' ''money
 
''[[Silent letters in English|.... (read more)]]''
 
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Revision as of 08:52, 8 December 2012

Wonders of the world

Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled throughout history. The most well known are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. These lists have been compiled over the ages to catalogue and to categorize the most spectacular man-made constructions and natural phenomena in the world. The number seven was chosen because the Greeks believed it to be the representation of perfection and plenty, and later was usually retained in analogy to conform with this ancient practice.

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

(CC [1]) Photo: Hannah Pethen
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Main Article:Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The historian Herodotus (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of Seven wonders but their writings have not survived, except as references. The seven wonders included:

.... (read more)

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