vowel
/ˈvaʊ.əl/ noun B1- A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. · Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
- A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely). · The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.· The word cwm, borrowed from Welsh, is an example of the letter w serving as a vowel in English.
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Consequently, words such as labor, honor, and flavor lost their superfluous vowels in favor of a more streamlined appearance.
They began frequently appending a specific vowel to the end of shortened nouns, creating a distinctive morphological quirk that produced quintessential terms remaining absolutely ubiquitous in contemporary conversations today.
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