{"id":2766,"date":"1998-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/11\/30\/vvowels-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T21:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T05:47:11","slug":"vvowels-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/11\/30\/vvowels-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"VV: Onset, Nucleus, Coda (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>Jacob Mattison reminds me that \"sometimes w\" has nothing to do with \"cwm\"; it's because the \"w\" in words like \"cow\" is an off-glide, the second part of a diphthong (much like the \"y\" in \"toy\"), and is thus contributing to a vowel sound. The point is still valid, though: in the linguistic sense, it's not letters that are vowels, but sounds. A letter can represent multiple sounds, and there are letters (notably y and w) that can represent either a consonant sound or a vowel sound.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 10 January 1999)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/11\/29\/vvowels\/\">Back to column VV<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-uuppercase-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}