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In article <1991May23.145439.12763@pbs.org> btiffany@pbs.org writes:
> In article <21835@cbmvax.commodore.com>,
> 	grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> 
> > Elementary school spelling rules are simplifications that bear little
> > resemblance to the english language.  There are only 26 letters, but
> > many more distinct vowells and consonants.  These are encoded partly
> > as letter combinations and partly by convention.
> 
> Alas!  I've been speaking this wondrous tongue lo these 3+ decades with
> apparent alacrity and aplomb, only to learn at this late stage that I didn't
> even know what I was doing!  Oh, woe is me ...

Life is for learning.  If you had bothered to look in the dictionary, you'll
find the first definition for vowel is a member of a class of sounds, and the
aeiou(y) bit comes in second. 
> 
> -- Bruce
> 
> P.S.  There's only one "L" in "vowel" ...	:-)

Two l's are alllllways better than one.  8-)

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