birdog1960 Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap4Right. It depends. does the map coincide with your experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Interesting. I'm in the NW New England zone and the "a" sound for "scallops" is definitely soft here (scollops) whereas being from Buffalo, I still pronounce it with short "a" as in "scale"...scallops. I now have a quest to tell all of the NW NE zone how to pronounce scallops correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Three: a, e, i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Three: a, e, i "I" is a diphthong, a combination of "a" and "e". So technically then, only two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 There are two words in the English language, 'cwm' and 'crwth', in which the letter W is a vowel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 There are two words in the English language, 'cwm' and 'crwth', in which the letter W is a vowel. pwnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanM.D. Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 "I" is a diphthong, a combination of "a" and "e". So technically then, only two. Correct though you may be....somewhere Bevis and Butthead are chuckling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 6 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Diphthong...? I thought Dick Jauron was the only diphthong in our area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cat Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Three: a, e, i Oh, you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Three: a, e, i Don't forget sometimes y. So 3.5 There's that number again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guffalo Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 (edited) 6 ? I agree, there are 6 vowels in "American English" Stop trying to impress each other with feats of mental strength. Edited May 7, 2013 by Guffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 There are two words in the English language, 'cwm' and 'crwth', in which the letter W is a vowel. Won a lot of Scrabble games with those two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 So what Do I win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamrock Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 (edited) Have you wondered about Australian English then? I mean, there's "a" which can be heard as "Or" as in Or- stralia. Can be heard as "ay" as in Or-str-aylia. And finally be heard as "uh" as in Or-str-ay-li-uh. Won a lot of Scrabble games with those two I'm suspecting Welsh origins? Edited May 8, 2013 by Shamrock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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