In Vowels^x

nq 1 Wasn t it the shilling that was similar to the 5p coin nq As I remember it the shilling was closer in size to the current 10p coin Of course up until a decade or so ago the 5p coin was identical in size to the shilling being a direct replacement for it and the old shillings remained in...

nq 2 has a picture of a pre 1971 thruppenny bit nq nq 1 That was a favourite coin of mine too I believe that it only existed in that form for a couple of decades being preceded by a silver thruppenny bit similar in size to the current 5p coin nq Wasn t it the shilling that was similar to the 5p...

Simple Spelling Rules I searched the Internet for Spelling Rules and came out with the followings which I thought to share with you P S I would appreciate if any moderator could check these rules and decides if they are worth to be published or to be erased from the forum 1 Whenever adding full...

Hi Demicjusz whom I call Demi not because I thought you were female but because the combination of vowels in your suffix are difficult to remember and copy down No excuses no analogies I just incorporate what sounds I seem to remember about some foreign languages of which these might be examples...

Thanks for having a go Mr M Well I m afraid I have no idea how well you did I m not surprised about lei in 3 I see a parallel with Venezuela but as for 5 I expected ge In 4 why g rather than sound heard in gem Any analogies And in 8 the last vowel is not from the English vowel system Does it...

If we agree that y is a semivowel and not a true vowel I submit the word syzygy

The basic reason is that they can t really sing meaning that they cannot hit a note and sustain it in the way that an opera singer would need to do American vowels are not pure sounds they slide through a whole range of sounds If you want to slide onto a note and change the pitch before leaving...

Personally I say GZ for all three As for the prefix ex ex followed by a consonant other than silent h eks excellent expect exhale ex followed by a vowel or silent h plus a vowel a when the ex is stressed eks exorcise exigent exhibition b when the ex is not stressed the next syllable is stressed...

here is an explaination to what is considered a vowel the english rule that we were taught here in america was this VOWELS A E I O U sometimes Y and W so w in the word crwths is actually considered a vowel in this circumstance hope that helps

I agree with other observers that B is the correct answer Rulewise I ve read somewhere that it s the phonetic sound quality of a word s first syllable that determines the modifying article not the word s orthographic written character Though seldom mentioned it seems to me that the basis for the...