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This vocalic w generally represented /uː/, [3] [4] as in wss ("use"). [5] However at that time the form w was still sometimes used to represent a digraph uu (see W), not as a separate letter. In modern Welsh, "W" is simply a single letter which often represents a vowel sound. Thus words borrowed from Welsh may use w this way, such as:
[4] The term "disemvoweling"—attested from 1990 [5] —was occasionally used for the splat-out of vowels. [4] [6] Teresa Nielsen Hayden used the vowel-deletion technique in 2002 for internet forum moderation on her blog Making Light. [7] This was termed disemvoweling by Arthur D. Hlavaty later in the same thread. [8]
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
No audible release ̈: Centralized ̴: Velarized or pharyngealized ᵊ: Mid central vowel release ̽: Mid-centralized ̝ ˔ Raised ᶿ Voiceless dental fricative release ̩ ̍: Syllabic ̞ ˕ Lowered ˣ: Voiceless velar fricative release ̯ ̑: Non-syllabic ̘ ꭪ Advanced tongue root ʼ: Ejective ˞ Rhoticity ̙ ꭫
letters: Japanese almost always alternates between a consonant and a vowel. Exceptions are digraphs shi and chi, affricate tsu, gemination (two of the same consonant in a row) and palatalization (a consonant followed by the letter y). a macron or circumflex may be used to indicate doubled vowels, eg. Tōkyō; common words: no, o, wa, de, ni
In Czech, the mnemonic device to remember letters in Morse code lies in remembering words or short phrases that begin with each appropriate letter and have a long vowel (i.e. á é í ó ú ý) for every dash and a short vowel (a e i o u y) for every dot. Additionally, some other sets of words with a particular theme have been thought up in ...
The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.
So the article title may better be something along the lines of "English words without vowel letters" or "English words spelled without vowels", as English words without vowel sounds seem to only exist in paralanguage. Nardog 05:59, 28 July 2018 (UTC) We are both appealing to the same thing but coming up with different answers.