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Originally posted by SMR
Interesting indeed!
I never even knew of the 'old' alphabet.
Since this is somewhat talk of vowels,is there ANY word that does NOT have a vowel in it?Try as I might,I could never find one.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Originally posted by SMR
Interesting indeed!
I never even knew of the 'old' alphabet.
Since this is somewhat talk of vowels,is there ANY word that does NOT have a vowel in it?Try as I might,I could never find one.
I can't think of any in English. There is a person here in New Mexico whose last name is Smrt. His name is on a plaque in the Los Lunas courthouse annex. I exclaimed "Does this man really have no vowels in his last name and everyone looked at me like I was strange. It's pronounced Smurt. If it was my name, I'd pronounce it Smart.
Originally posted by Toelint
Hahaha...
Yes, there IS a reason for asking this question. Please refer to the alphabet as written below.
A BCD
E FGH
I JKL
O MNP
Q RST
U VWX
Y Z
[edit on 12-9-2004 by Toelint]
Originally posted by SMR
Interesting indeed!
I never even knew of the 'old' alphabet.
Since this is somewhat talk of vowels,is there ANY word that does NOT have a vowel in it?Try as I might,I could never find one.
Originally posted by Toelint
Hahaha...
Yes, there IS a reason for asking this question. Please refer to the alphabet as written below.
A BCD
E FGH
I JKL
O MNP
Q RST
U VWX
Y Z
Believe it or not, this is a VERY OLD version of the alphabet. Have you noticed that every vowel falls into the first column? More amazing is that the first column is made up EXCLUSIVELY of vowels...except for the letter Q!
It just seems to me that this IS how the alphabet should be written, and if so, then we should consider Q a vowel. Maybe there's a conspiracy here too??
[edit on 12-9-2004 by Toelint]
Originally posted by SpittinCobra
Originally posted by Toelint
Hahaha...
Yes, there IS a reason for asking this question. Please refer to the alphabet as written below.
A BCD
E FGH
I JKL
O MNP
Q RST
U VWX
Y Z
[edit on 12-9-2004 by Toelint]
A bcd
E fgh
I jkl
M nop
Q rst
U vwx
Y z
Here is the correct ABC's.
[edit on 18-9-2004 by SpittinCobra]
Originally posted by Viendin
One of a class of speech sounds in the articulation of which the oral part of the breath channel is not blocked and is not constricted enough to cause audible friction.
Originally posted by Ut
The OED has a point. Their job is listing words with their proper spelling, and their definition. The nature of the alphabet really doesn't come into play.
If you really want to wrap your head around some letter, ask why is W called "double u"? Of course, in French isn't "double v", which makes sense, but what possible use is "vv"?
W was invented by Roman schollars who were studying the Germanic tribes. Latin didn't have a w sound, so they approximated it by saying "uu".
So why W?