The program contains an interactive pronunciation chart developed by the British Council that groups sounds by vowels, consonants and diphthongs complete with audio examples. The software is available ...

A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y. You might have learned it as a chant, a song, or a simple declaration, but this is how you learned the vowels of English. You may have wondered, why is Y so unsure ...

They are consonant+vowel combinations 'wuh' and 'yu.' A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not a bad rule of thumb. Most of the time a spoken vowel will be represented by one of those written forms.

The vowel sound in "fire" glides from "ah" to "ee." The sounds that make up the second part of the diphthongs "oo" and "ee" can also serve as consonants when they start a syllable.

In verbs like 'swear' or 'shout' or 'shoot', the two vowels together produce either a diphthong or a long vowel sound and it is therefore unnecessary to double the consonant in the past tense or ...

The great vowel shift did not involve the shortening or the forward movement of vowels, as Michael Erard says (29 March, p 28). Only the long vowels shifted – upwards – or became diphthongs ...

Most notably, you can see from the higher F2 that Mercury’s vowel is much more fronted and becomes increasingly so over the course of the vowel’s production. This points to a diphthong that was not ...