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heart-shaped shop sign stating "Anybody can cuddle but only the Welsh can cwtch" English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel letters a, e, i, o, u , as well as y , which may also be a consonant depending on context. However, outside of abbreviations, there are a handful of words in English that do not ...
Eszperente is a univocalic form of Hungarian in which no vowels can be used other than "E". This task is eased somewhat as "E" is a common vowel in Hungarian. In fact the letter e can denote two similar but distinct vowels. There are poems and even some books written in Eszperente, mostly for children.
A Loquacious Location of Lipograms (omits the letter E) Andrew Huang performs his own "Rapping without the letter E" A thread of a Hungarian forum where the members talk only in Eszperente (regular Hungarian, but using only the vowel E) Las vocales malditas by Óscar de la Borbolla; Lipogram article at A.Word.A.Day
The title eunoia, which literally means good thinking, is a medical term for the state of normal mental health, and is also the shortest word in the English language which contains all five vowels. The cover features a chromatic representation of Arthur Rimbaud 's sonnet " Voyelles " (Vowels) in which each vowel is assigned a particular colour ...
Many languages that use a form of the Latin alphabet have more vowel sounds than can be represented by the standard set of five vowel letters. In English spelling, the five letters a e i o and u can represent a variety of vowel sounds, while the letter y frequently represents vowels (as in e.g., "gym", "happy", or the diphthongs in "cry ...
Oxford Companion to the English Language in its entry on vowel letters, says, "the five classic vowel letters of the Roman alphabet are A, E, I, O, U, to which Y is usually added; apart from its syllable-initial role as a semi-vowel or semi-consonant in words like year, y functions in English largely as an alternative vowel symbol to i." The ...
(See International Phonetic Alphabet#Letters.) Fortunately, using the IPA for English requires learning only the following small subset of them: Vowels: English orthography uses 6 vowel letters (a, e, i, o, u, y) to represent some 15 vowel sounds. While the English system is compact, it is also ambiguous.
In this study it is usual to represent consonants in general with the letter C and vowels with the letter V, so that a syllable such as 'be' is described as having CV structure. The IPA symbol used to show a division between syllables is the full stop . . Syllabification is the process of dividing continuous speech into discrete syllables, a ...