What is a short vowel sounds?
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Take A for example in the word grape the sound is long in the word apple the sound is short.  Short vowel sound is the softer of the sounds used to say different words.  O note (long) out (short) E neat (long) envelope (short) I ipod (long) in (short) U up (short) perfume (long).... confusing but hope it helps.
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It would be impossible to avoid repeating the vowels.  The most consonant sounds per vowel allowed in English is demonstrated in the word "strengths", which has 3 sounds before the vowel and 3 after.  That is, the maximum consonant-to-vowel sound ratio in English is 6 to 1.  Since the alphabet is considered to have 20 letters that represent consonant sounds and 6 that are considered to represent vowel sounds, a ratio of 3.33 to 1, this is theoretically possible, but MOST syllables in English don't have a 6 to 1 ratio, so you would probably want to use the same vowels again.  In fact, I believe the letter "e" is the most commonly used letter in English.\n\n(In this answer I am glossing over some MAJOR issues about how the spelling system represents sounds in English, but I think it'll give you the idea.)
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phonetic: mom a see ta\nor\nma =>
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Rotokas (Indo-Pacific) and Mura (Chibchan) are tied for the least sounds--only 11. (Rotokas has 6 consonants and 5 vowels)\n\n!Xu (there's a line over the u) (Khoisan) has 24 vowel sounds and 117 consonants, including 48 different clicks.
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i would like to buy a vowel
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There are few words in the language that actualy contain no vowels, especially if you are considering "y" a vowel, which I certainly do.  Two examples (of which there are very few) are cwm - a bowl shaped mountain basin; and crwth - an ancient celtic stringed instrument.  \n\nAlso, certain anomonopeia (pretty sure that's spelled wrong... you know, a word that's spelled the way it sounds) such as pssst or brr, are in fact considered words like the guy above says.\n\nAs for words with no consanents...  I went searching and found the page below that says the following vowel only words are in dictionaries... don't ask me what they mean though, not sure for most of them...\n\nAA - Lava\nAE \nAI \nAIEEE \nIAO \nOII \nEAU - I think it's an animal\nEUOUAE \nOE \nOO \nI - obvious\nO \nA - obvious\nIO - One of the moons circling Jupiter I believe.\nand UOIAUAI
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Winter is cold \n\nYou said short ;)
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heck, encarta encylopedia has this feature. it goes with sounds so u can practice pronunciation.
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There are NO words(English) that has NO vowels. Exceptions migh be Dr. Mrs. shhh, try.. but the DR. and Mrs. are abreviations and the shhh is a SOUND, not a word and the Y in try is a vowel.
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LMAO: Laughing My A** Off\n\nKK: Okay\n\nThese shorthand are often used in chat rooms and online games for quick and brief words.
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accent the first and last syllables
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The long sounds are generally used in two situations:  1) When the word the modifier precedes (or is modifying) begins with a vowel sounds, and 2) when to pronounce the modifier in the conventional (i.e., short vowel/schwa sound) way would lead to confusion.
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The Shortest word with the vowels in alphabetical order is AERIOUS (7 Letters).\nThe Longest such word is PHRAGELLIORHYNCHUS - a protozoan (18 Letters).\nSource: http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm\n\nAlso another ggod source:\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17\n\nabstemious\nabstemiously\nabstentious\nadventitious\nadventitiously\narenicolous\narsenious\ncavernicolous\n\n\nHere are some other words that have all five vowels in the correct order, but \nalso contain some duplicate vowels which are out of order:\n\nabstemiousness\nabstemiousnesses\nadenocarcinomatous\namentiferous\nanemophilous\nantireligious\nargentiferous\narteriovenous\nautoecious\nautoeciously\nfacetiousness\nfacetiousnesses\ngarnetiferous\nsacrilegious\nsacrilegiously\nsacrilegiousness\nsacrilegiousnesses\nultraserious\n\nA great tool for solving crossword puzzles, anagrams, and questions like this \nis an alveary. There are many freeware and shareware ones available on the web.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=alveary\n\nBryson's TEA (The Electronic Alveary) is excellent. It used to be freeware but \nis now shareware. \n\nhttp://www.bryson.demon.co.uk/tea.html\n\nThe old free DOS version can still be downloaded from\n\nhttp://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/anagram/tea/\n\n    'Eunoia' is the shortest work in English to contain all\n    five vowels, and the word quite literally means 'beuti-\n    ful thinking'. _Eunoia_ is a univocal libogram, in which\n    each chapter restricts itself to the use of a single vowel.\n\nThe whole book appears to be available online,\nSee http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/new_ennui.html\n\nPLEASE NOTE - IMPORTANT - READ THIS FOLLOWING NOTE:\nNothing is from me - i found it all at the following 2 links:\nhttp://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm\nAND\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17
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yes.  they shorten long vowel sounds and reduce dipthongs (dipthongs are double vowel sounds)\n\nif you combine the shortened vowels with other common pron problems of malaysians, you get a very clipped speech pattern and foreigners might not be able to catch all the words
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The most common vowel sound in English is the vowel known as schwa.  It is written with an upside down e in phonetic transcription.  It is the vowel of "but" and "cut" and "putt" in stressed position, but it is the sound that nearly every other vowel assumes in unstressed position.  It is the vowel of the first and third syllables of "democracy" when pronounced normally.  It is the vowel of the second and fourth syllables of "antiquated" when pronounced normally.  Of course, people will disagree because they will pronounce these words slowly to themselves and hear different vowels in those positions, but slow pronunciation is not normal.  Normal pronunciation is how you pronounce things when you aren't thinking about them during extended speech.\n\nAnd no, the other Germanic languages do not have the unstressed vowel reduction process of English.  The English process began during Middle English times about 900 years ago, 500 years after English began to diverge from the other Germanic languages.  I don't know what the most common vowel sound is in those languages, but the frequencies of the different vowel sounds is more evenly distributed among them.  The frequency of the schwa sound in spoken English is very noticeable in counts of sounds.
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making the short hand like a song(in tunes) and hearing it.
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STRENGHTS...Longest word with one vowel only