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Guest  +  50757 Sun, 17 Oct 04 07:16 AM
When is "w" used as a vowel?
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CalifJim  +  50763 Sun, 17 Oct 04 07:58 AM
If you are referring to the sound of it, "w" is a semi-vowel, which means it's also a semi-consonant. It is also called a rounded high back glide.

If you mean the symbol "w", it seems to me that you could think of it as the vowel sound /u/ in words like 'few' /fyu/. It is frequently the second element of a vowel digraph (aw, ew, ow), but I'm not sure if that's what you had in mind.

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