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At the end of a word, '''k''' is usual after a double or long vowel, and after '''l''', '''n''' and '''r''': '''pêak, mâke, sínk, boòk, tá ..., '''k''' merely reinforces the hard '''c''' sound and the preceding short vowel: '''clóck''' (*clók, *clóc), '''lúck, súck, néck, báck, thíck, bló

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...ayer can then choose to spin the wheel again and earn more money, reveal a vowel for $250, or guess the words and win the puzzle's prize. If the player gues ...vealed on the puzzle, and the player guesses three more consonants and one vowel to reveal more of the phrase to them. They have 10 seconds to guess the ent

...l motivation in phonetic change: Dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift'. ''Journal of Sociolinguistics'' 8(1): 23-53.

...oubled in the middle of words to maintain the short sound of the preceding vowel: '''bétter, hítting''' (cf. '''hít'''), '''knítted''' (cf. '''knít''') ...thê''' ([[schwa]] before a following consonant, '''ê''' before a following vowel), '''thís, thát, thére, thén, òther, brêathe, lāther, hêathen''' (c

But it is at its most frequent as a vowel at the end of words. Here it is often pronounced like the word '''Î''' at ...are very rare: '''sýllable, sýllabus, Lýttelton''', and, with a different vowel sound, '''mÿrrh'''.

...ginning of a word, starting either with the same [[consonant]] or with a [[vowel]]. In [[poetry]], the words would normally be in the same line (or, in som

...d ''beo'' 'alive'. Such consonants also affect which of Irish's 15 or so [[vowel]]s may acceptably co-occur with them. ...t̪ˠəx] 'spent bog', primary stress falls on the first member. When a short vowel is unstressed, it generally surfaces as the [[schwa]] [ə], similar to the

*'''ɜ''' as the vowel sound in 'her', 'fir', 'fur' and 'work' *'''ː''' lengthens a preceding vowel

...has many words which completely change meaning with the change of a single vowel.)

...ically possible to produce, but unattested in any languages. The front low vowel [ɶ], for instance, seems to be absent from the phonology and phonetics of ...ch vowel; for example, the lower the bottom formant ('F1'), the higher the vowel is articulated in the [[mouth]]. This image was created using the [http://w

It is doubled in the middle of words to keep the preceding vowel short: '''fúnny''' (from '''fún'''), '''ínner, wínning, dínner, Ánnie ...eparately (outside some regional pronunciations) and this is true before a vowel in the middle of some words: '''sínger, wínger, wrónged, bánging, Bíng

If the verb ends in "y" and a vowel precedes the "y", add "s". For example, ...or example the verb permit (the verb ends with "t" (consonant) and an "i" (vowel) precedes the "t") double the final consonant and add "ed". Here are some e

...Е]]'''   '''е''' || е {{IPA|[je]}} || '''IE ie''' (initially or after vowel: '''JE je''') || {{IPA|[je]}}, {{IPA|[ʲe]}} || ''ye'' in "''ye''t" ...Ё]]'''   '''ё''' || ё {{IPA|[jo]}} || '''IO io''' (initially or after vowel: '''JO jo''') || {{IPA|[jo]}}, {{IPA|[ʲo]}} || ''yo'' in "''Yo''rk"

...s]] ([[German language|German]] ''Palatalisierung'') to refer to a type of vowel mutation more commonly referred to as ''[[i-umlaut]]'' (UK: ''i-mutation'') ...quires a secondary palatalized articulation under the influence of a front vowel or palatal or palatalized consonant. This process manifests itself in varyi

...ways on the first [[syllable]]. The [[alphabet]] contains 44 letters: 14 [[vowel]]s and 26 [[consonant]]s, plus 4 "foreign letters": ''q'', ''w'', ''x'' and

...stead of a pitch accent, so the diacritic is now used to mark the stressed vowel of a word. The acute accent marks the [[Stress (linguistics)|stressed vowel]] of a word in several languages:

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..., áfterwards''', pronounced *hàad, etc. And the '''r''' is silent before a vowel in BrE '''îron''' ''metal'' = '''îon''' ''electron''. ...' and before '''ôw''' and '''y''', giving the short sound of the preceding vowel: '''árrow, márrow, búrrow, fúrrow, Térry, Dérry, cúrry, sórry, mér