The word 'vowel' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the type of speech sound made with an open vocal tract and without audible friction. For example, "The English language contains five vowel sounds: A, E, I, O, and U."
Burton made one interim ruling: that Tempora should be pronounced with a short 'o' rather than a longer vowel sound, to avoid confusion with Japanese deep fried food.
And I went to grammar school so I probably did adjust my vowel sounds but I haven't reinvented my voice.
He too had grown out of this bottomless "sump and seedbed", "the vowel of earth/dreaming its root/in flowers and snow".
If any of those present could identify an English word with six "I's" in it and no other vowel, they would get their money back.
Some insinuated that the model's name was missing a vowel.
The letters "ST" are most often followed by a vowel.
One snag is that, at present, the visual representation of the voice has to be tediously annotated manually for its vowel and consonant content.However, a slightly different approach, measuring the proportion of speech time during which the vocal cords vibrate, could be automated since software for extracting that feature already exists.
The difference between t and p would be clear before a vowel.
Vowel harmony - the practice, shared with many languages, including Turkish and Finnish, of adjusting the vowels in suffixes so that they resemble those in the root word - is just a way of sparing the tongue from unnecessary movement.
The penultimate vowel makes all the geographical, cultural and artistic difference.Dan BarkerOxford, OxfordshireTrouble and strifeSIR – I find your report that it costs 5,000 pesos ($93) to hire an assassin in the Philippines to be an exaggeration ("Watch what you write", June 18th).
If it's two syllables, the Americans would have to be careful to call it the PON-say, with the Spanish pronunciation of the second vowel, and resist the urge to Americanise to PON-see.
