In Vowels^x

Here's a conundrum for you:Latin as written in Roman times had no letter <w>, but it did have the sound /w/. The letter <u> was used to represent both the sound /u/ and the sound /w/.uolo (pronouced more or less as "wallow")cumuulpus (pronounced more or less as...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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 vowel tones by a scale of one to five. Sometimes the pitch rises or falls on the vowel sound of a given...

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:That just about sums it up really.

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...

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/ ...

.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... When looking at how a syllable is produced, one will never find an example in the English language of a syllable that is produced entirely by the LETTER W. It is for this reason (and the other one) that one cannot call the LETTER W a vowel. ...