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...h the lower lip: compare '''wét''' and '''vét'''. '''w''' is '''u''' as a consonant: the position of the lips is the same: '''wíll, whích, whére, whŷ, wít ...f course be two separate sounds in separate syllables, with the '''w''' as consonant: '''rewård, bewãre'''.

! Consonant ...ure vowel or a diphthong, or a pure vowel or diphthong without a preceding consonant.

'''l''' begins consonant clusters: '''élbow, álcohol, ôld, Álfred, Ólga, élk, Élspeth, ållsp ...'''l''', while dark '''l''' is found in final position, or before another consonant. Light '''l''' is pronounced more in the front of the mouth, with the tip

* In some cases, unstressed /ə/ before a consonant -> /i/ ('helmet' -> 'awmit') * Post-vocalic /l/ -> /u/ before a consonant, or finally ('milk' -> 'miwk')

...box running down our little results chart as we tried to figure out which consonant it was. Somehow the correct letter is always the last one I try. [[User:E.

'''f''' begins consonant clusters: '''Áfghan, aflôat, frîght, shíft'''.

...[[syllable]]. The [[alphabet]] contains 44 letters: 14 [[vowel]]s and 26 [[consonant]]s, plus 4 "foreign letters": ''q'', ''w'', ''x'' and ''y''. It also has an

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...syllable containing two moras in its ''rhyme'' (the part after the initial consonant-bearing ''onset''), and therefore at least two segments, is 'heavy' and so

...ragment of the ''De analogia'' in the discussion of the double [[Consonant|consonant]].<ref>Sextus Pompeius Festus, ''De Verborum Significatu'' V 108.7–13, ('

after a consonant '''ô''' (rhyming with words in -'''ôe'''), apart from '''tŵo''' (-û) an

It begins consonant clusters: '''émber, ámbling, ámbry, amnêsty, émpty, Húmphrey, ámple,

...her a rhyme is "correct". In English, it is not considered correct if the consonant (or combination of consonants) with which the rhyming syllables begin is th

...2021. </ref>. Although the spoken languages used by the drummers also had consonant and vowel-based "phonemes", the vowels and consonants proved unnecessary fo

...are'' (with that '''r''' silent in [[British English]] finally or before a consonant: ''ah''). ...tish English|British]] and [[Commonwealth English]], it is silent before a consonant, though it significantly affects the pronunciation of the preceding vowel:

'''t''' begins consonant clusters: '''cútback, cátkin, chŏrtle, Wéstminster, trêe, stétson, ou Voiced '''th''': '''the'''/'''thê''' ([[schwa]] before a following consonant, '''ê''' before a following vowel), '''thís, thát, thére, thén, òther

...word examples to illustrate reduplication and syllable structure (i.e. the consonant-vowel pattern). Also, the plantation workers: I think many, if not most of

It begins consonant clusters: '''bréad, ábdicate, abhŏr, abjûre, óblong, ábnegate, breâk

== Consonant names == ...itions to the English irregular noun catalogue. It occurred to me that the consonant names could go in [[English phonemes]] as well. But I never used them much

Obstruent [[consonant]]s are most typically distinguished by voice, among others. English disting