Re: Latin vowels?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 14:08:33 EDT


Hi Phil.

At 13:38 -0400 2002-09-09, Pblair@worldbank.org wrote:
>And isn't W a vowel in English too? As in the word "few"?

The thing is, vowels and consonants are spoken. Orthographies
(alphabets and other kinds) may represent those with one-to-one,
one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many relationships. Hmmm --
[fju:] doesn't correspond one-to-one with f-e-w, does it?

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