It's the only multi-syllable letter in our alphabet
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English orthography - Wikipedia  English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent spoken English in ... Letters in English orthography usually represent a particular sound ... /f/ in syllable onsets and is almost never pronounced // in syllable codas (the ..... Besides the quirks the English spelling system has inherited from its past,...
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Why is the letter "w" the only letter in (basic) English alphabet that is ...  May 17, 2012 ... Is there any reason/history as to why "w" is the only letter in English alphabet that is not pronounced as one syllable? ... If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question. ... That question implies more on the visual representation of the alphabet rather than it's pronunciation.
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How to Pronounce English - English Communication  Jun 5, 2016 ... Each language though, has a system to its organization and how sounds ... the most common vowel sound in the English language, one which can be ... Silent letters can affect the number of syllables in a word. ... There are only five vowels but many more sounds. ... Two Vowel Rule for Multi-Syllable Words...
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Improve Your English Pronunciation - The Complete Guide  Learning how to pronounce sounds, words and sentences correctly is just as important ... There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, but there are 44 sounds in ..... Often the stress in a multi-syllable word will change according to whether it's a...
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letter Y - Wikipedia  Y is the 25th and penultimate letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In the English writing system, it sometimes represents a vowel and .... But, by the time of Middle English, /y/ had lost its roundedness and became ... without stress at the end of multi-syllable word as in baby, happy; used in...
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Greek alphabet - Wikipedia  The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the 8th century BC. ... In its classical and modern forms, the alphabet has 24 letters, ordered from .... in Ancient Greek stand for corresponding fricative sounds in Modern Greek. ..... Greek were spelled with -, indicating an original pronunciation with -.
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J! Archive - Show #4358, aired 2003-07-09  It's time to tell you Audemars Piguet has been making these since 1875 ... It's the only U.S. state whose name consists of only one syllable...
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What Makes a Vowel a Vowel and a Consonant a Consonant  Apr 22, 2014 ... You already know that vowels in the English alphabet are a, e, i, o, u, and ... But did you ever ask yourself why the letters were divided into two separate groups? ... So, while every word has to have a vowel, not every word has to have a ... There aren't any words in the English language that have all five...
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A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems  Most alternative systems write words the way they sound, not the way they are spelled. ... To make up for the missing symbols, several letters are often combined to ... systems can be so much faster than looooooonghand, which uses several ... It is simpler than Pitman Shorthand, without the need to use both thick and thin...
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The alphabet used to have other letters -- meet two | Dictionary.com ...  Oct 11, 2010 ... The English alphabet, as you likely know, is made up of 26 letters. ... third t sound tsadeek is represented with a short ah sound also. usually .... Can you give more examples? ..... At that point, thorn took over for both phonemes, before also ... Einstein, not Einstien (the pronunciation of the German vowels...
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Enuf or Enough? Why Is English Spelling So Random? | Dictionary ...  May 27, 2014 ... I have always wished we could use the phonetic alphabet to 'spell' ...... We have one letter (e) to represent the first vowel sounds in both ... So just stop being stubborn about the idiotic spelling of modern English (why would you want to ... If British and Canadians can add 'u' to color and switch around letters...
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Master Contest List - NRARS.org  All letters in the name must be used, and no letters may be left over. .... YEAR 2 BEGINS .... Somewhere in the poem, one line must consist of only one word. ..... up any two of them, and propose an appropriate name for their hypothetical foal. ... poems so ickily precocious and pretentious they make haiku look like Kipling.
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Enuf or Enough? Why Is English Spelling So Random? | Dictionary ...  May 27, 2014 ... Since the 17th century, scholars have been protesting. ... But it really seems you are using Anglo-Saxon as a code word for any English ..... We have one letter (e) to represent the first vowel sounds in both pronunciations of 'record'. ... So just stop being stubborn about the idiotic spelling of modern English...
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Hooked by Phonics - Kate of Gaia  Many letters have multiple sounds and these are LEARNED through forced practice called school. ... For proof of this, I will ask if you can see the wave patterns of sound, the ... What do the Greek letters represent? ... There's where we get hooked on the spells and then, by phonics. ... Imagine a language without them.
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poetry - Does a Haiku needs to have exactly 17 syllables? - Writers ...  Nov 4, 2012 ... The short answer is "no, there are many exceptions and alternate forms. ... Haiku is less a syllabic form than a kind of poetry. ... writers, starting more or less in the early 1900s used the 5-7-5 syllable form in imitation of the Japanese. ... What I mean by the spirit of the poem (I know, it's pretty vague, right?)...
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The alphabet used to have other letters -- meet two | Dictionary.com ...  Oct 11, 2010 ... The English alphabet, as you likely know, is made up of 26 letters. ... In the Latin alphabet, the y was the symbol that most closely resembled the character that represented thorn. .... Thorn looked somewhat like a y, including in upper-case, perhaps .... The flat a in bath doesn't force an unvoiced th.
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J! Archive - Show #4285, aired 2003-03-28  In the word seen here in 17th-century-style printing, the first letter isn't an F, but this ... 4-letter performer defined as "A buffoon who practices gesticulations"...
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Syllabification and word stress | e Learn English Language  Single-syllable words can be formed using one letter or many letters. ... The stress mark follows the syllable that is stressed. For example, in the word incredible, the second syllable ... You must be logged in to post a comment. About this site...
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Harry S[.] Truman: Single-letter names vs. "bare initials"? - narkive  perfectly acceptable for someone to have a name of only one letter. ... use of a period after his middle initial is not universal, however; ... And in what sense was he "joking" when he said that the 'S' ... case there might be some justification for doing so, considering that .... instructions), and I'm sure there have been others.
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The alphabet used to have other letters -- meet two | Dictionary.com ...  Oct 11, 2010 ... English was first written in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc runic alphabet, also ... You are correct that the Latin words were spelled with an i, but the j ...... The roman writers of this part history omitted these two letters and ..... A rough rule of thumb is: short vowel is followed by ss, long vowel is followed by .
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How Many Vowels Are There in English? (Hint: It's More Than ... - Slate  Aug 19, 2014 ... Well, if we're talking about spelling, then, yeah, our alphabet has six ... one way to distinguish between a consonant and a vowel in English is...