What's your favourite vowel? I love me an O.

@VCOTABFONDD

11 ай бұрын

E

@SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment

11 ай бұрын

My favourite is a sometimes vowel: R

@VCOTABFONDD

11 ай бұрын

Nvm I like W

@davea6314

11 ай бұрын

My favorite is when the word "favorite" is spelled without the offensive vowel "u" as I don't want Noah Webster rolling over in his grave. I am after all a bloody Yank not a Limey. -Dave the Bloody Yank 😜

@Drake56242

11 ай бұрын

W

There is a short poem in Scots that consists entirely of vowels. Oo? Aye oo, Ae oo? Aye ae oo. Aw ae oo? Aye aw ae oo. translates to Wool? Yes wool, One wool? Yes one wool. All one wool? Yes all one wool. Hehe.

Defining consonants as requiring the mouth to close is pretty alien to me -- as it excludes almost all of the sounds. The only English sounds that require me to do something I consider closing the mouth are /b/, /m/, /p/, and arguably /f/ and /v/. It doesn't make more sense when I try to squish the definition of a closed mouth. If it means the vocal track being blocked somewhere in the mouth area, then all the fricatives don't meet the definition. If it means moving the jaw upwards, it's literally none of the sounds -- I can position my jaw such that I can make all of the English sounds and all of the non-English sounds I know of without moving my jaw.

@terrylambert8149

11 ай бұрын

Not close the mouth, move the lips.

@andifyouwantmetoidlovetoru4870

11 ай бұрын

Actually a consonant is every sound in producing which we force the airflow to meet a hindrance in the mouth OR force the airflow to go through space between organs of articulation which are very close to each other in the moment of producing the sound. At least that's what I was taught at the university.

@iantino

11 ай бұрын

@@terrylambert8149 I don't have to move my lips to say "go", "can" and "act"

@klikkolee

11 ай бұрын

@@terrylambert8149 /b/, /p/, /v/, /f/, /m/, and /w/ are the only ones that require lip movement from me.

@terrylambert8149

11 ай бұрын

@@iantino glottal stops

I really love you’re etymology videos! But I wasn’t super hot about this one. Consonants are not just sounds that are made by closing the mouth, but rather are made by restricting airflow through articulators (teeth, tongue, lips, nose, etc) to create turbulent airflow. With the exception of labial consonants ([b] [p] [f] [v] etc.), you can pronounce pretty much any consonant with your mouth open. By contrast, vowels are made by letting the sound resonate through the mouth without turbulence. The reason that “w” [w] and “y” [j] are considered semi-vowels is not because of how the letters are used, but because they have properties similar to both consonants and vowels. In semi-vowels, articulators DO cause turbulent airflow, but less so than other consonants. The “w” [w] and “y” [j] compare with the vowels “oo” [u] and “ee” [i], but there are other semi-vowels in human languages. In fact, in some dialects of English, most notably Standard American, “r” [ɹ] is also considered a semi-vowel, where the proper vowel is usually spelled like “er” or “ir” [ɚ] or [ɝ]. Also, “h” [h] is not a vowel. The English “H” is usually articulated in the throat by a small organ called the glottis. This can vary by dialect and the surrounding phonetic environment.

NameExplain is become more and more about linguistics and I’m all in for it

@se6369

10 ай бұрын

Yet he keeps making mistakes...

@cl4655

10 ай бұрын

Its always been about linguistics, etymology specifically

@joeybarber5273

10 ай бұрын

It's a nice channel with a lot of educational videos but I really wouldn't rely on it for linguistics. There are a lot of errors and misunderstandings in this video

@ph1l69

9 ай бұрын

​@@joeybarber5273Which mistakes did he make?

@Kitsu_Worm

9 ай бұрын

​@@ph1l69consonant definition, some specific sound (namely approximate) is really just way to produce consonant, and sorting vowels that ignore unit of vowels sound (namely monothongs, diphthongs, tripthongs)

Polish has 9 vowel graphemes but only 6 vowel phonemes. A = AH E = EH *I = EE O = OH *U/Ó = OO Y = Y in rhythm Ą & Ę are O & E respectively followed by a nasal coda. *I and U can become consonants. I can become a Y-sound in York as palatalisation if it's after a consonant and before a vowel. U can become a W-sound when in a diphthong.

@Maus_Indahaus

10 ай бұрын

In Serbian we have 5 vowels A = AH E = EH I = EE O = OH U = OO And R can sometimes assume the role of a vowel if it is between consonants, like in the word: Prst (finger)

@modmaker7617

10 ай бұрын

@@Maus_Indahaus How would you pronounce the R vowel?

@Maus_Indahaus

10 ай бұрын

@@modmaker7617 Like in Spanish, I think. It's a thrilled R, a vibrating R, or something like that

@miksuko

10 ай бұрын

​@@Maus_IndahausI don't think a trilled R can be considered a vowel in any situation.

@Maus_Indahaus

10 ай бұрын

@@miksuko Then how would you pronounce Prst? We can, and with ease, thanks to thrilled R. If not for that, it would be a word consisting of four consonants, and that doesn't make sense in any language

To me it was A E I O U and sometimes Y

@TheSpiritombsableye

11 ай бұрын

It is A, E, I, O, sometimes R, sometimes U, and sometimes, Y. Let's hear the arguments here.

@TheSpiritombsableye

11 ай бұрын

I can't take this video. "A" doesn't make an Ah sound. Damn British people.

@TheSpiritombsableye

11 ай бұрын

Chute doesn't use a long "U" sound. Cute is a more accurate answer.

@TheSpiritombsableye

11 ай бұрын

The lips aren't the only point in the mouth to be closed where sounds are designated to be a consonant.

@TheSpiritombsableye

11 ай бұрын

To be a vowel it doesn't need to be the sole vowel.

Two key vowel sound you missed are The ah version of a. Like a in bath in many varieties of English (or like the a cart without the r sound). And the schwa vowel, which is lazy version of basically every vowel letter!

Is anyone else seeing the word AUTISM in the thumbnail?

@MichellesdesignsEtc

11 ай бұрын

I see it 😂

@PatchPolarfox

11 ай бұрын

Was just about to comment this lol

Could you do a vid on why Q and X can sometimes be pronounced as K and Z?

In Swedish, we have 9 vowels (or 18 if you consider that all of them come in two different variants): A, E, I, O, U, Y, Å, Ä and Ö.

This was a particularly interesting Name Explain. I learned so much. Thanks, Patrick.

note: consonants dont require closing your mouth, they just require a relatively more restricted vocal tract when producing the sound also consonant and vowel do refer to the sounds but also the letter lol everything else spot on (i think), love ur vids edit: also technically w is most of the time distinct in that its a velar approximant as well as a bilabial one but thats more a fun fact i wanna share rather than something that u got wrong lol

@oravlaful

11 ай бұрын

his reasoning for H not being a vowel is wrong too, i'm pretty sure

@iantino

11 ай бұрын

@@oravlaful Yep. The reason is that /h/ restrict the glottis.

@oravlaful

11 ай бұрын

@@iantino H is also voiceless, while vowels are necessarily voiced

@justfrankjustdank2538

11 ай бұрын

@@oravlaful yeah that one too oops, thx for adding

@iantino

11 ай бұрын

@@oravlaful Not necessarily, there is voiced consonants and devoiced vowels, the latter being way unusual, but yet exists.

A better definition of a consonant would be a sound produced by restricting air flow in some way, whether that be with your throat, tongue, teeth, lips, or some combination thereof. Also, "vowels" that combine two basic vowel sounds--such as "oi"--are more properly referred to as diphthongs.

In Alaska there is an Athabascan language called Dena'ina. I'm Kenaitze Indian and we speak Dena'ina. It used to be called Tanina because of the Russians. But we have done huge restoration projects for our oral language and it's now a written language which means they made an alphabet. And in Dena'ina there are only 4 vowels. Also Dena'ina is part of the Na-dene language family and we have a lot of cognates and shared words with Navajo. I would be thrilled to see a video on indigenous languages.

Before diving into a problem I had with this video, I would like to preface this all with the mention that I am a fan of your videos as etymology is a topic that I enjoy learning more about. However, this video genuinely frustrated me at times. In the beginning, I was worried but was relieved when you finally mentioned that letters are not vowels... before you then treated them as such for the rest of the video. The way you're describing English's use of Y as a vowel is incorrect. English uses the letter Y to represent different vowel sounds, most commonly /i/ and /ai/, but not to represent the /j/ sound (the "yuh" sound) like the Welsh do with the letter W being used to represent the /W/ sound. English does use the /j/ /W/ sounds as semi-vowels in diphthongs (semi-diphthongs? Mono-and-a-half-thongs? I need to email my professor) but that is not what you're discribing here. One final, parting point. The word wry contains... no semivowels, despite the fact you claim that is the only thing is contains. For completion's sake, it's pronunciation is /ɻaɪ/. I want to reiterate this is not a mean-spirited comment, I just don't want the perpetuation of the common misconception that letters and the sounds they represent are one and the same. Thank you.

Since Y is a full vowel in Swedish I was so confused when trying to learn English! I think we have 17 vowel sounds and 9 vowel letters, but IDK confused myself again trying to count them :)

@Furienna

10 ай бұрын

Vi har 9 vokaler, eller 18 om man menar att A, E, I, O, U, Y, Å, Ä och Ö har två varianter var och alla de vatianterna är varsin vokal.

@ujocdod

10 ай бұрын

@@Furienna Jag menade att o kan uttalas på 3 sätt och ett av de sätten är samma som korta å.Och kort ä och e har samma ljud, det var det jag enade med förvirrande :)

In Dutch you (sometimes) distinguish between long and short vowels. Names have combinations like aa, oo, ee, but usually not uu or ii for some reason. Though we also have combinations like oe, ui, au, eu, etc

@SomasAcademy

10 ай бұрын

We used to do something similar in English, but over time our vowel pronunciation shifted while a lot of spellings remained the same (which is one part of why English spelling is so odd), so double-vowel spellings stopped having that significance.

@Olafje

3 ай бұрын

The long i is written as ie (this is a remnant of the old Dutch spelling where long vowels were written as the vowel+e) and uu exsists, like in uur, huur, buur, kuur...

@thijsbos

3 ай бұрын

@@Olafje damn, how did I miss all the uu words back then? Also interesting on the ie. Didn't know that.

I'm sorry, but I can't agree that R or L or H are wovels. This is how the consonants are divided at least in Swedish: Approximants: J, L, R, W Nasals: M, N Clusiles: B, D, G, K, Q, P, T Fricatives: F, H, S, V, Z Mixed: C, X

In Filipino we follow the traditional 5-vowel pattern and also have some diphthongs: aw - as in loud ay - as in eye oy - as in boy (There are possibly more but the others are not often used)

From the brief time i spent in New Zealand i'm convinced that their approach to vowel usage defies all reason and logic.

My favorite is when the word "favorite" is spelled without the offensive vowel "u" as I don't want Noah Webster rolling over in his grave. I am after all a bloody Yank not a bloody Limey. -Dave the Bloody Yank 😜

A in Cat is actually Ä sound. :D

@Somebodyherefornow

11 ай бұрын

its a /æ/ sound wtf is ä

@Ekami-chan

11 ай бұрын

@@Somebodyherefornow looking up æ Wikipedia, it is the sound that Ä letter makes, so yes.

@iantino

11 ай бұрын

@@Somebodyherefornow it's, generally in this context, mostly a transcription of /æ/.

Countries that use the /aeiou/ vowel system:Mapona(Toki Pona),Spanish(Argentina,Colombia,Mexico,Peru,Spain),Japan,Italy,Serbia...

H isn't a vowel. In the IPA, it's listed as a consonant (voiceless glottal fricative). It requires the glottis and the larynx coming together. Also if it is a vowel, what's its vowel height, frontness, formants, etc?

I love this channel!!!

The only consonants that require you to close your mouth, are labial plosives and fricatives b/f/m/p/v. All other consonants can be made with an open mouth. What distinguishes consonants from vowels is that consonants always require some level of restrictive airflow. Vowels are formed by how you shape the mouth.

I'm used to this channel making a lot of mistakes but there were so many inaccurate statements in this video I'm wondering if this is intentional disinformation.

I think one thing that also sets H apart is the fact that it's unvoiced. All other sounds you mentioned are voiced, which sets H apart. It's a weird sound, anyways, because it's like the absence of the others. It's unvoiced, open-mouthed, no stops or fricatives or whatever. I would say it's like the number zero, the perennial weird one that doesn't fit anywhere, but we put it in one place almost arbitrarily.

Vowels are complicated. Patrick mentionned that a number of times in the video. And judging by the number of comment stating that Patrick 'is wrong'--yet bringing up different and often contradicting arguments, I have to agree--vowels are indeed complicated.

This must be an education difference, because anyone who went to school in the USA would include "sometimes Y" in their list of vowels. I cant think of a situation where a psrson wouldnt include Y

Scots has an extra vowel from English l as PAY , HAY and WAY have a different vowel to SAY. That vowel is different to the English one in HIGH too.

I consider the short o sound a variant of a. I vary on whether I lump it in with aw. I consider the a in Dad and Dan to be the same even though I pronounce them differently. I think phonetically the long A sound is best represented by ei.

There was a song in the '80s called I.O.U. by Freeez.

and this video was fullly awesome

Mate, approximants are consonants! The sounds that require the mouth to close are bilabial consonants: /b/, /m/, /p/, and maybe labiodental consonants: /v/ and /f/. To sound the latter two, the bottom lip touches the front teeth; is the mouth closing to make those sounds? C, D, G, H, J, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, X, Z, Ð, and Þ are consonants that allow the mouth to remain opened.

In my language, Bangla, Consonant are defined as sounds that is produced when air coming out causes friction with part of our vocal appendage, at least during part of their pronounciation. Volwers are, that come out of the throat without any friction. In that way, L, V, H, C are no way vowels and are definitely consonant. In my language, consonants are also categorized according to the dominant part of the mouth which is required to constrict the air to produce that produce that sound. For example, 'L' is a upper teeth consonant, while 'P' is a leap consonant. Somehow I find this definition and categorization superior to what described in this video. As this is precise and clear cut. Though its old and might need some update, but its still more precise.

You don't have to close your mouth to sound out most consonants, such as c, s, k, l, r, t, w, y, etc. so that is not a good definition. It's more that, unlike vowels, with consonants your lips touch or your tongue makes contact (with the roof of your mouth, teeth).

can you please use the IPA

Katsumotonese has seven vowels A E Ê I O Ô U /a ɛ eɪ i ɔ oʊ u/ As in car,egg,play,eat,corn,low,too

Actually, H isn't phonetically a vowel. Vowels have to be voiced. H isn't.

i think learning ipa would be really useful for these types of videos-

While spoken Hebrew has vowel sounds, written Hebrew has no letters that represent vowels.

I've never heard of h being described as a vowel before, and I'm pretty sure it isn't one by any definition. A vowel is produced with just the vocal tract, lips and sometimes and tongue, but without restricting the flow of air out the mouth. H is a fricative consonant because it creates sound from friction somewhere in the mouth, in the case of h from the throat. I've heard it before that h is just the sound of normal breathing, but I don't think that's true either. For me at least, it requires a slight tightening of the throat. Also, and the main distiction for me, is that all vowels in the vast majority of languages are voiced. (I have heard of unvoiced vowels in some languages, but I've never heard them don't know how they're pronounced. In any case we don't have them in English.) However h is, in the vast majority of cases, an unvoiced sound. A voiced equivalent also exists in some languages, but when I try to pronounce it I have to tighten the throat more than with an unvoiced h, making it sound even less like a vowel. I like that this channel is delving into linguistics and phonetics, but things like this will be confusing for people with less knowledge. However I'm not a qualified linguist, and I might be wrong, in which case I'm happy to be corrected.

@nordlyz_4881

3 ай бұрын

I know im 4 months late for this, but! The voiced /h/ your talking about is /ɦ/, which is foten called the "Voiced Glottal Fricative", but it's actually not voiced. Glottal sounds, to my knowledge, cannot be voiced. /h/ and /ɦ/ are both not vowels by any means

As a non-native english-speaker it's really weird to me that vowels vary in duration of time instead of just sound.

@Bacopa68

10 ай бұрын

Adam Neely has a video on Scotch Snaps that's about how vowel length affects how people write music. It's pretty interesting.

@angeldude101

10 ай бұрын

Except they kind of _don't._ It's more accurate to say they change based on a following glide. "I" is closer to /aj/, "E" is closer to /ɪj/, "A" is closer to /ej/ (pay no attention to how none of those use their own letter in their pronunciation), "O" is closer to /ow/, and "U" is closer to /uw/. The JOIN and DOWN listed in the "other category" actually belong with these being /oj/ and /aw/ respectively. There are some accents that do distinguish by vowel length, but other accents distinguish those sounds by the presence of an "r."

When you pronounced the name of "R," I noticed that not only did you _not_ pronounce the actual consonant sound /ɹ/, but you _also_ pronounced it entirely as a vowel, and specifically a vowel that appeared nowhere on your list of 15, namely /ɑː/. Your list of 15 seems to be trying to stick too closely with the 5 vowel letters and the "long" and "short" distinction. Also, the 5 vowel letters representing the most common vowels in the English language? _The_ most common vowel in the English language is represented but precisely _none of them._ Dr. Geoff Lindsey has a great video and article describing the vowels in Received Pronunciation, but works surprisingly well even for non-British accents. His system consists of 20 vowels split into 4 categories: short monophthongs, /j/ diphthongs, /w/ diphthongs, and "long vowels," which in rhotic dialects actually (mostly) become the r-colored vowels. Alternatively, you can say that there are only 7 vowels (maybe a couple more), and 3 "modifiers" in a sense: /j/, /w/, and /ɹ/.

As an portuguese speaker, english vowels+w+y are just out "A E I O U" vowels stacked in a trenchcoat

I have two objections: (1) It may be that in linguistics, vowels are sounds but not letters, but I venture to guess that when most if not all of us learned the alphabet in school, we learned that a, e, i, o, and u were vowels (besides, you can buy a vowel on Wheel of Fortune); (2) I don't know if this is still true, but when I was in school in the 70s, we learned that "cwm" was the only English word that used 'w' as its only vowel. We were taught that "cwm" meant valley and then we never heard the word again. So, as far as I'm concerned, "cwm" is an English word. 😛

Danish has a lot of vowel sounds. 22 at least. Some estimate it at 40. The nine vowels in the Danish/Norwegian alphabet: *a, e, i, o, u, y, æ, ø* & *å.* Yes, *y* is a vowel, pure and simple. The many vowel sounds is probably one of the reasons it's a difficult language to learn for foreigners. Danes are tuned in to hear the small nuances, where other don't. It's basically impossible to explain to native english speakers how the *æ, ø* and *å* are pronounced, not to mention the danish y-vowel.

@NBrixH

8 ай бұрын

In my experience “y” is practically impossible to explain to English speakers. Since the “ü” sound doesn’t exist in English.

H is not phonetically a vowel; it isn't vocalized.

@iantino

11 ай бұрын

There is unvoiced vowels. The reason is that H restricts the vocal tract in the glottis.

Serbia also has five vowels:aeiou(аеиоу) Serbian consonants:bcdfghjklmnprstvz(бцдфгхjклмнпрствз) Other letters:ч,ш,ж,ль,нь,s(dz)

@kirilvelinov7774

7 ай бұрын

Variant:дикпт(guknm)

What about the A in father? Neither long nor short.

Vowels in England:Aa,Ae,Ar,Ao,Ee,Ei,Er,Eu,Ih,Oo,Ou,Or,Oi,Uu,Ur... Vowels in Spain,Brazil:A,E,I,O,U

I could see V being included with w I as natural born American only differentiate in the creation by moving my bottom lip to touch my upper teeth instead of my other lip.

@iantino

11 ай бұрын

/w/ is a double articulated consonant, it's an approximant that is both labial, so the lips gets close to each other, but don't touch, and velar, so the tongue gets close to the vellum, the soft palate, a part of the mouth way back in the mouth's roof. /v/ is just an labiodental approximant, so the bottom lip approaches the teeth. They actually consonants, though.

Those are letters. Graphic symbols. Consonants and vowels are sounds.

@instrumental32

11 ай бұрын

he literally says that in the video

@modmaker7617

11 ай бұрын

Graphemes ≠ Phonemes It's a difficult concept for people to grasp.

@oravlaful

11 ай бұрын

letters are intrinsically connected to their sounds. so while talking about a certain language, letters might as well be vowels and consonants

@iantino

11 ай бұрын

He points it out, but it is actually both, vowels are also a graph sign. It's just that only in some specific context letter vowels are refered without meaning the sound vowels.

@martinsriber7760

11 ай бұрын

@@oravlaful Most "vowel letters" in English represent diphthongs by default.

In my language, sinhala, y,r,l,w are called semi vowels.

The vowel of "turn": Am I a joke to you? Also "chute" and "soon" have the same vowel sound

I like /e/, but not /E/ as much.

the “not closing your mouth” analogy is weird and oversimplified because really over 90% of sounds would be called vowels or approximants really only p, b, m, f, v, and i guess technically s and z would be considered consonants as you could easily pronounce t, d, k, g, etc. without closing your mouth approximants are called approximants I'm pretty sure because your tongue doesn't fully touch the place of articulation, iirc, l is referred to a liquid consonant, probably because your tongue does infact touch the articulated place

And then there are the things that other languages do with H. Spanish: Doesn't even acknowledge its existence in their words. Irish: Yeets lenition at you and runs away.

"consonants are defined by closing your mouth" uh I only close my mouth to say b, m and p. That definition sounds wrong. I don't close my mouth to sau L, but I can't say "L" on its own without a vowel sound. ...I and E need the tongue. "I" pronounced "eee" you have to narrow the throat for it. That new definition is absurdly arbitrary compared to the traditional one.

@iantino

11 ай бұрын

I think he meant "stop air flux in the mouth" but it would exclude non-pulmonic and all glottals so…

And sometimes Y!

"Cwm" is just a different language using the same letters differently (which every language is entitled to do). Of course, they couldn't use a u, as the English would inevitably pronounce it "kyum". But what's wrong with "koom"?

If it wasn’t for all the words, i think C might had a chance at being a Vowel since you can tecnically make C sound like “cuh” without closing your mouth

@alexanderkelsey202

11 ай бұрын

Linguist here. I think phrasing it as “closing your mouth” was slightly misleading, really it’s any closure/constriction anywhere in the vocal tract, not just at the lips. With /k/ the airflow is completely stopped and so is definitely a consonant

missed opportunity for the short vowels: Pat (short for Patricia) pet pit pot put

@Lightmations2024

10 ай бұрын

pat is a literal english word

And just have to say typical northerner as his 15 English vowel sounds omits the southern English 'a' in 'bath' 🙂

There are 7 vowls same as nusic notes. A E I O U Y Ë.

imagine you're talking to a linguist and you're TALKING ABOUT LONG AND SHORT VOWELS LIKE THAT MEANS THE PRONUNCIATION "oh no no no there's 15 vowels in English. cuz there's the long and short vowels…" "/mia dio/… /ju kant bi fʌkɪŋ siriəs/… /ʍaɪ du ju θɪŋk aɪm ə prəfɛʃn̩l̩ lɪŋgwɪst/?? /aɪ noʊ maɪ ʃɪt ɚaʊnd vaʊl̩z/!"

1:20 littera vocalis pronounced in the most british way

1:44 well, unless you're slavic, or caucasian (looking at you georgian!)

So H is the tomato of English. Not exactly a fruit, and not exactly a vegetable

@Lightmations2024

10 ай бұрын

same with w

Fun fact:With the top six letters in the thumbnail's ven-diagram, you can spell *AUTISM*

What aboht S though?

4:49 you didn't wanna do another take of that? that is surely not the sound in the word cat. a sound that the letter 'a' makes for sure, but not in the word 'cat'

PWN, w is vowel

in Italian we still have as vowels A E I O U and Y

@zidane8452

5 ай бұрын

Just like english

I'd like to buy a vowel

So why isn’t F N S and V considered vowels? I don’t think you ever close your mouth or stop your air like C in click when pronouncing those? F and V get close but not quite.

@Pining_for_the_fjords

8 ай бұрын

He's wrong about the definition of a consonant. The only consonants which require a completely closed mouth are b, p and m. A consonant is rather a sound made by blocking or restricting the flow of air through the mouth, which f, n, s and v all do.

Vowels:AEIOU Semivowels:YWRH Consanants:BCDÐFGIJKLMNOPQSTUVXZÞ

How Argentinians pronounce English vowels😂😂😂 Cake(kahkay) Type(teepay) Hope(hohpay) These(thaysay) Rules(rooless)

L, w, y, r, h, and T

i think the letter Y is always a vowel

We have 5 vowels, 16 consonants and 5 that we call them "foreigns" (a.k.a "straniere", and are J K W X Y)

How many vowels does your country have? Italy:5! Greece:7! Finland:8! UK:14???

I'm sure you have met a lot of James, but have you ever met a single Jame?

In portuguese a,e,i,o,u, â, ê,ô, á,é,ó, ã,õ

"Dog" and "hop" are just using the "aah" sound. I don't know anyone outside of the University of Georgia that pronounces it as "dawg".

@alexanderkelsey202

11 ай бұрын

They are different in most kinds of British English and some other dialects. RP (more or less standard British) has more back rounded vowels (ɔ and ɒ in the International Phonetic Alphabet) than general American English, which only has unrounded [ɑ], which the others historically fused with. The main phenomenon here is the “cot-caught merger” if you wanted to investigate more, so for an American cot and caught (or dog and hop) usually have the same vowel, but they are distinct in RP and some other dialects.

@kirabowie

11 ай бұрын

New Yorker here and I pronounce "dog" as "dawg," and 'HOP' using the "aah" sound. And to use alexanderkelsey202's example, I also "pronounce "cot" using the "aah" sound and "caught" using the "aw" sound. 😆

I disagree with your definition of a consonant. I'd define a vowel as "a sound that you make without making a connected articulation in your mouth." a consonant is therefore "something that you need to articulate with your throat, tongue, or lips." These descriptions explain why 'r, l ,w ,y' are still considered vowels or approximates. (im only somewhat versed in these topics so i welcome anyone's own opinions on my views. i dont intend for this to come off as a know-it-all comment. I just genuinely like to talk about this stuff and would like to hear other's two cents about this) Also, the English "long/short" distinction is completely senseless. In most languages, long and short vowels are made with the same-ish vowel sound but the vowels are actually said longer. The only reason we use the terms "long and short" in English is because English, Francophile scholars wanted to make the language more like french. So they just adopted the term and made up something for them. The actual sounds are pronounced fairly different from each other in english. In English, true "long/short" distinctions are made by the consonant that comes after the vowel. For example, "leaf" vs "leave". "leaf" ends in a voiceless fricative and therefore is pronounced shorter than "leave"

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@wigley7610

4 ай бұрын

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What about T? You can just use your tongue?

@alexanderkelsey202

11 ай бұрын

Linguist here. I think phrasing it as “closing your mouth” was slightly misleading, really it’s any closure/constriction anywhere in the vocal tract, not just at the lips. With /t/ the airflow is completely stopped and so is definitely a consonant

@tanfanhvac

10 ай бұрын

@@alexanderkelsey202 That makes sense. Thank you.

Did anyone else automatically see autism in the thumbnail, or is that just my neurodivergency acting up?

What are bowels? Your bowels make up part of your lower digestive tract and consist of your intestines, rectum and anus (bottom). Your rectum is where stools (poo) are stored. Your brain sends messages to your rectum when it is full and needs to be emptied.

Vowels are controlled open throated grunts. True? Long vowels vs short vowels? What s silly designation! You can say a long vowel quickly and you can say a short vowel slowly, even very sloooowly. The naming of these is in need of reconstruction. That's my opinion.

your definition of consonants is pretty bad, as mentioned in other comments. consonants require you to articulate, while vowels require you to change the shape of your mouth and have a free path for the flow of air. vowels are timbres, while consonants are noise also, H is a basically a puff of air that does not require your voice to be produced, while a vowel is the sound the voice makes when passing freely through a particular mouth shape, that's why H isn't a vowel

H cannot be a vowel because it's not voiced. Etymologically, vowel means vocal or voiced.

Haven't watched for a while but... did your voice get higher? Is this still you?

Is it kind of ironic that a Brit is using the American English pronunciation guide? 😋

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