![]() The most common vowel sound in English doesn’t even have its own letter in the alphabet. Depending on the dialect, and including diphthongs, which are combinations of two vowel sounds, English has from nine to 16 vowel sounds. The vowel sounds are different from each other in each pair, but they are represented by the same letters. For example consider the word pairs cat and car, or cook and kook. While we have six letters we define as vowels, there are, in English, many more vowel sounds than that. ENGLISH HAS MORE VOWELS THAN THERE ARE LETTERS FOR THEM.Ī, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y are the letters we define as vowels, but vowels can also be defined as speech sounds. ![]() ![]() There's more to these workhorse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think. A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not all you need to know about vowels.
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