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friend I looked at your links the case presented over and over is that W is a semivowel because sometimes it is used to represent PART of a dipthong I don t think that qualifies In fact every one of your sources excpet the woefully inadequate wikianswer site says that SOME linguists call W a...

Have a look at these opinions http dictionary reference com help faq language t50 html http answergirlnet blogspot com 2007 07 can you give example of use of w as html http www roanoke com columnists jennings wb xp 4058 http wiki answers com Q What_Word_uses_w_as_a_vowel http www angelfire com...

In American English the s in sides sounds like z too Here are the rules for pronouncing the final s in American English 1 es is pronounced as ez after these sibilant sounds s businesses buses z freezes causes sh bushes marshes ch churches lunches j pages judges and ADVANTAGES 2 s is pronounced as...

quote user New2grammar I have no idea what those numbers represent you can say it louder of softer quote Just as you could assign numbers from one to five to represent the loudness or accent of the syllables in a sentence you could represent the pitch level Hertz at which you speak sing the...

I am not sure I can say anything further without repeating myself I think we should go back to the second post in this thread quote user J Lewis The problem with any category is that once you have established it you will always find something that doesn t quite fit The Letters W and Y both have...

We don t Well I don t anyway I pronounce the second s in sides as z The reason for the extra vowel sound before the z in advantages is simply because the g is soft and the combination of soft g followed immediately by z or s is almost impossible to say

The author above is correct Here is a rule that might help you in the future s is pronounced as z after these voiced consonant sounds and all vowel sounds b tabs d cards v loves g hugs th bathes l girls r cars m moms n men s ng sings y boys w how sHope this helps Susan lt link removed by a mod...

The usage has nothing to do with companies or any other context It depends solely on the beginning sound of the next word or utterance Here LCI is pronounced el si ai so the first sound is a vowel sound hence an LCI

Let s take this a step at a time Forbes quote user Forbes It is unwise to rely on the etymology of a word to discern its meaning or if it has a range of meanings to insist that the original meaning is somehow more correct Words mean what they mean In any discussion of the meaning of a word it is...

It is unwise to rely on the etymology of a word to discern its meaning or if it has a range of meanings to insist that the original meaning is somehow more correct Words mean what they mean In any discussion of the meaning of a word it is often instructive to look at its etymology as a starting...