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The fact that American English has 44 sounds but only 26 letters created multiple duties for some consonants and vowels ... it would be to implement phonetic reforms, especially in newspapers.

ridiculed by primary teachers and classmates for their pronunciation of consonant blends that are foreign to their native languages, for names that are different and no one wants to take the ...

Visual descriptions of vowels turn up in experimental psychology surveys, in physical acoustics, in vocal manuals and discussions of opera, in phonetics ... on which consonants surround them ...

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Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable. Japanese has five vowels: a, i, u, e, o. And it has nine consonants. In Japanese, each vowel by itself and a set of a ...