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- From: monica@searchtech.com (Monica Skidmore)
- Subject: Re: Vowels in words (and syllables)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.211641.2093@searchtech.com>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:16:41 GMT
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- In article <1d9oriINNam5@gap.caltech.edu> dian@arpeggio.gg.caltech.edu (Dian De Sha) writes:
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- >The phrase we were taught was "a, e, i, o, u, and, sometimes, y."
- >This was necessary to fulfill the grammar requirement that
- >*all* words shall contain at least one vowel. With such a
- >definition, what would we do with "try, cry, fly..."?
- >
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- Was anyone else taught "a, e, i, o, u, and, sometimes, y and _w_?" Several
- different teachers told me this, but they never gave a really satisfactory
- example of 'w' as a vowel. One of them explained that in some words where
- one might assume that 'w' is a consonant it is technically a vowel. (I think
- an example might have been something like 'bow,' but I can't remember.)
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