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Hi, You are taking the wrong approach in counting consonants and vowels. eg phone and fox both have one syllable, despite the double consonants 'ph'. Consider the sound, not the letters. the word "television", which has a similar consonant/vowel sequence, is divided as tele-vi-sion, that...

Of course we need consult IPA, but some of their concept require some change. For instance, some times, it is very hard to denote a 'Phonetic pattern' in any letters. It is not syllable, not CV note. 'man' is a syllable, it is not a CV note or we may say, it is a series of CVC, yet it is one...