I'm not really a?ÿLogophile, but?ÿI recently looked up "when is a 'w' a vowel" just out of curiosity since I learned the vowels included "and sometimes 'w' and 'y'" in grade school. I happened on the following article by Grammar Girl:?ÿWhen is a W a Vowel?ÿShe talks about vowels from a whole new perspective than I ever learned about them.?ÿ She says that any letter (or combination of letters) can take on the properties of a vowel.?ÿ?ÿ
I just found it interesting.?ÿ No point to make really.
Such as "ough"?
Such as "ough"?
ough is a good one.
that's about 7 different sounds.?ÿIn cough and rough the gh would be a consonant and the ou would be the vowel (I guess).
though (like o in go), through (like oo in too), cough (like off in offer), rough (like uff in suffer), plough (like ow in flower), ought (like aw in saw), and borough (like a in above)
Then there's "slough" that can mean a "slew" area of deep mud, or can mean sluff or to cast off.
