| Abby Kirk - Latin language - 1910 - 274 pages
...LESSON I INTRODUCTION 1. The Latin alphabet is like the English, except that j and w are wanting. 2. The letters are divided into vowels and consonants. The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y. I may be either a vowel or a consonant.* 3. Each vowel is long (marked -) or short (unmarked) according... | |
| Lillian Gertrude Kimball - English language - 1911 - 300 pages
...What are these eight words ? 27. DIACRITICAL MARKS The letters of the alphabet are of two sorts — vowels and consonants. The vowels are a, e, i, o, u and sometimes w and y. The other letters are consonants. There are very few diacritical marks for consonants.... | |
| William Harkness Arnold - French language - 1912 - 136 pages
...classes, it will be sufficient for the purposes of this book to divide them into only two classes: vowels and consonants. The vowels are A, E, I, O, U and Y; the consonants are all the remaining letters. The Circumflex. — The first of the four characters... | |
| Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, John Herbert Phillips - Spellers - 1913 - 134 pages
...n W w F f O o X x G g P p Y y H h Q q Z z I i R r These letters are divided into two groups called vowels and consonants. The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. The consonants are J, c, d, f, g, h, j, fc, I, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, x, z, and... | |
| Chief Publishing Co., New York - Civil service - 1914 - 348 pages
...spoken ol altogether the name ALPHABET is given to them. Those LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET are of two kinds, VOWELS and CONSONANTS. The VOWELS are A, E, I, O, U, and each one of them gives a full, open sound. The CONSONANTS are B, C, D, F, G, H. J, K, L, M, N, P, Q,... | |
| Emma K. Gordon, Marietta Stockard - Readers - 1918 - 344 pages
...chaperon chiffonier challis machine chevron chivalry pistachio SPELLING RULES The letters of the alphabet are divided into vowels and consonants. The vowels are a, e, i, o, u. The consonants include all the remaining letters. W and y serve both as vowels and as consonants. They... | |
| Daniel Starch, George Alonzo Mirick - Spellers - 1921 - 120 pages
...fore'head po ta'toes a head' knuck'le cel'lar coun'try foun'tain VOWELS The letters of the alphabet are divided into vowels and consonants. The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. The other letters are called consonants. Each vowel has several different sounds,... | |
| Mary Fontaine Laidley - English language - 1922 - 330 pages
...break fast re joice sur round an gry bri die re peat de sire Vowels and Consonants The sounds of words are divided into vowels and consonants. The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y and w, as in fly, dew. When a vowel is marked with a line above it, as a, it has a long... | |
| United States. Government Printing Office - Authorship - 1945 - 504 pages
...is mostly set in Latin characters, the remainder of .this section will also be in Latin characters. Vowels and consonants The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and у (including the umlauts ä, Ö, and tí) . The other letters of the alphabet are consonants. Diphthongs... | |
| United States. Government Printing Office - Authorship - 1967 - 528 pages
...dieresis appears occasionally over u following g; its occurrence elsewhere is so rare as to be negligible. Vowels and consonants The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. The other letters are consonants. The letter y is a consonant at the beginning of a word... | |
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