W-M, which refers to a kind of valley, but I’m only mentioning it because if I don’t, a commenter will. In this word, yes, W represents a vowel. Personally, I think this word is so rare as to be best ignored, but it’s allowed in Scrabble, so who am I to make a fuss?
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In Experiment 3, we examined whether listeners can distinguish between flat sasasa utterances taken from languages within the same “rhythm class.” We contrasted utterances of Standard Southern British English (EngS) and Welsh Valleys English (EngW). These are two varieties previously established to...
For adjoining Sanskrit vowels ‘ ऐ ’ and ‘ औ ’ , which are essentially ‘a’ followed by some vowel, one may use the former shorthand followed by ‘y’ or ‘w’ respectively. The usage of this convention is, unless mentioned otherwise, mandatory for the sake of simplicity and ...
To get an idea of what the result sounds like, listen to the way that native speakers of Welsh speak English! Or simply click on the link below to have a Cornish sample text read out in an approximation of classical Middle Cornish. You may find some of the vowel sounds different from ...
But I was just as astonished to discover Welsh "ll"s in their language; I had absolutely no expectation of hearing a distinctively Welsh sound out there (Incidentally, they also had a North Walian "y" vowel sound)! In 2008, I was invited to another orthography workshop, where group...
It’s a shame, because it would really be most lovely and convenient to have a really solid argument to throw around. This doesn’t seem to be one. Dsays December 21, 2014 at 2:34 pm J.W. Brewer
Ellis, N. C., & Hooper, A. M. (2001). Why learning to read is easier in Welsh than in English: orthographic transparency effects evinced with frequency-matched tests.Applied Psycholinguistics, 22 ArticleGoogle Scholar Scientific Studies of Reading, 9 ...
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We’ll start with W, since that’s the one people have the hardest time with. Many people think that it’s only a vowel in Welsh words, like “cwm” or “crwth.” Yes, in those cases W’s status as a vowel is easy to see. But they are not the exception. In every case, W...