Added above:
envelop/envelope
quit/quite twin/twine fin/fine
hug/huge sat/sate Tim/time wad/wade hop/hope
scrap/scrape
ban/bane van/vane rod/rode
bed/Bede (Saint and historian)
war/ware(?)!!
Some more:
cloth/clothe cod/code met/mete dot/dote cot/cote
pin/pine but/Bute (Isle of) bud/ Bude (Cornwall) dud/dude(?)
(even pet/Pete)
The first post
spin/spine shin/shine breath/breathe lath/lathe
cut/cute thin/thine fad/fade bad/bade
Oh how I love this 'rule', unknown to me in childhood but learnt whilst on a supply teaching post.
The 'silent e' makes the letter SOUND its NAME, ie. 'a' as in fat becomes 'a' as in fate. There are loads of examples out there. If, like me, you love words and hadn't known this rule, you may enjoy spotting your own.
Ever since then, I've been on the look out for unusual specimens, of which 'lath', an answer in a crossword was my most recent discovery. I was really chuffed with that one. (Also, I hadn't realised before that a lath is a thin piece of wood (the clue!!). The things you can learn from a crossword, eh, that is if you can remember them the next time you see the clue, which I usually can't.)
Is 'car/care' an example, do you think?
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