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It is part two in a series on vowels.

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episode. Okay, I'm here with my husband David. We're discussing the vowels of American English.

Last week, we did the first five vowels in my list.

We did the all as in father, all as in law, ah as in bat, e as in she, and i as in sit.

American English has 11 vowels, so we've got six more to get through today

david are you up for that i'm up for it let's do it let's do it so in the last episode i asked

if you could come up with all of the different vowel sounds in english which you couldn't not

surprising but one of the ones that you did come up

with was the e-vowel, like embed.

Mm-hmm.

And I forget what word you came up with for it, but I think that it was spelled with an E.

Now, you know, after working through that first podcast that the sounds in

American English do not correspond with the letters in a meaningful way. Right. So this e-sound can actually

be spelled eight different ways. Wow. We can spell it with just a letter E like embed. We can spell it with the

A-Y letters like in says. That one I think is really interesting. We have the word say. What do you say?

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