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Requested move 21 July 2016
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I would be opposed to the change, unless good evidence can be provided. Doing superficial searches of Google Books/Scholar, I find "silent e" to be a much more common term for the phenomenon. (It's not really magic either, so the argument given by the proposer doesn't hold much water.)
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Strong oppose. There is no reason to move this article when the E itself isn't pronounced anyway. The term "magic e" is not used in teaching the English language, except to young children, whereas "silent e" is. ONR (talk) 00:07, 27 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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The article claims that phonological vowel length was lost in Middle English, which is of course complete nonsense. The author clearly completely misunderstood open syllable lengthening. Middle English was full of long vowels in closed syllables (līf, knīf, bọ̄k, chīld etc. etc. off the top of my head), and even short vowels in open syllables appear to have always existed.