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Example sentences for: vowel
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This seems all the more wasteful, considering that the only useful information being conveyed in our example is a single vowel sound.
The diphthongs ae, oe, and ue appear so often in German that mediæval scribes started writing the e above the first vowel, something like this: \?\.
The same is true for Honey's assumptions about Buddha , which he implies is universally pronounced in AE with the vowel of boot ; about Moscow , the second syllable of which is not always rhymed in AE with cow ; about Nepal , which is pronounced identically to the British (RP) way by many AE speakers; and about Vietnam , the -nam of which, contrary to the author's information, is pronounced by many AE speakers to rhyme with dam , not palm . As for Pakistan , Americans tend to give both a sounds the same quality, whether they rhyme them with that in father or in man . On the other hand, the pronunciation of Afghanistan in Britain follows either the pattern of Pakistan , which has the a of man in the first syllable and that of father in the last, or, as in America, is heard with the a of man in both positions.
That vowel would not yield the first vowel of gunsel, hence a Yiddish origin for it is doubtful.
The chicken has a name related to that of the cock , with its changed vowel representing its less powerful cry.