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Baby_Rhino:
isnt thats "tisk tisk" ??

tsktsk would be the internet (read lazy!) way of typing it

laser_jock99:

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Vowels are, strictly speaking, sounds, not letters of the alphabet.
The letters of the alphabet used to represent vowel sounds are a, e, i, o, u, w, and y.

The sound of "w" in "water" and of "y" in "yes" are called semi-vowels or glides; however, these glide sounds are not the only sounds which "w" and "y" represent. They can represent full vowels as well, as in "crwth" and "cyst" and "sky".

Furthermore, "w" is associated with "u" and "y" is associated with "i", so that "u" and "i" also represent the glide sounds in "water" and "yes", as in "quite" and "onion". Had history gone a little differently, we might now be spelling these last two as "qwite" and "onyon"!

So the little clause "and sometimes 'y'" is really a misleading little clause. It presupposes that the glide sound in "yes" is to be considered a consonant. Otherwise, the "y" would be considered a vowel the same as "a, e, i, o, u", i.e., always a vowel. And if "y" is not a vowel when a glide, then neither is "i", and there should be another clause saying that "i" is "only sometimes a vowel", it not being so when it represents a glide (as in "onion").

In summary, "i", "u", "y", and "w" are all used to represent both glides (semi-vowels) and full vowels.

By the way, there are a few "words", if we can truly call them that, which have no vowels:
Shhhh!!! Pssst!!! Sssss! Pff! Hmm. Mmm.

(Pasted from another forum!!)


Still- if the current laziness of some folk takes hold we'll all be using 'text speak' and won't need vowels anyway!

C U L8R

beast5680:

--- Quote from: "Baby_Rhino" ---isnt thats "tisk tisk" ??

tsktsk would be the internet (read lazy!) way of typing it
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no it isnt the lazy way of typing it its the way its spelt in the dictionary

simdeb:
out of intrest, when i was at college a couple of the people on the course said they were taught to write how it sounded not how they were spelt correctly, this caused them to suffer when the schools decided to go back to spelling correctly!  one of them mentioned it as they had heard the goverment were going to bring it in again, so how are we supposed to teach our children to read and write, there has got to be one way and one way only either learn to spell (or try to ) correctly or use text messeaging, if they do bring it in then i will be well out of sorts. when my kids text me i have to tell them to write it proper or i have to ring them up for translation

debbie

mark.yellow.series.3:
whats a vowel? is it a rat thing that lives by rivers :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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