a,e,i,o,u, sometimes y and w. Did you all learn the whole thing, or just stop with sometimes y? I know Welsh has a perfectly functioning w as vowel, but I can't think of any English words in which it does this...
The first word that popped into my head was "sow", probably because I watched The Exorcist last night. What a great movie! Is it safe to say that w in all diphthongs has a vowelly quality, and at the beginning of a syllable is consonantal?
When I was in school we were taught that the vowels were a e i o u, and that was it. Then later we were told that we divide a word into syllables such that each syllable has one vowel. You can imagine the confusion when it came to divide simple words like "happy" or even simpler ones like "fly"! My early education did me harm.
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Is it safe to say that w in all diphthongs has a vowelly quality, and at the beginning of a syllable is consonantal?
When I was in school we were taught that the vowels were a e i o u, and that was it. Then later we were told that we divide a word into syllables such that each syllable has one vowel. You can imagine the confusion when it came to divide simple words like "happy" or even simpler ones like "fly"! My early education did me harm.
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oddly, the only two examples that a google search revealed were cwn and crwth...essential to any good vocabulary, you'll agree.
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