 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 pàgines
...d,f, I; which require vowels to express 'them fully. The vowels are rt, e, i, o, ?/, and sometimes w and y. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable : but in every other situation they are vowels. It is generally acknowledged by the best grammarians,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 352 pàgines
...</,/,/; which require vowels to express them fully. The vowels are, a, e, z, 0, «, and sometimes w and y. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable: but in every other situation they are Vowels. , ' It is generally acknowledged by the best grammarians,... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pàgines
...which are divided into vowels and consonants. The Vowels are seven, namely, a, e, i, o, u, w, y, but w and y are consonants when they begin a word, or syllable. Consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels. The Mutes cannot be sounded at all without a vowel,... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pàgines
...words. Letters are divided into vowels and consonants. The vowels are, a, e, i, o, w ; and sometimes w and y. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable; but in every other situation they are vowels. Four of the consonants, namely, /, m, », r, are liquids,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 120 pàgines
.../, I ; which require vowels to express them fully. The vowels are, a, e, », o, u, and sometimes w and y. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are vowels. Consonants -are divided into mutes and semi-vowets.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pàgines
...which require vowels to express them fully. The vowels are, o, et it o, «, and sometimes to and //. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are Towels. IT is generally acknowledged by the best grammarians,... | |
 | L. Murray - 1821 - 620 pàgines
...the same clearness and precision as in conversation. The vowels are, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. W and Y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are vowels. The meeting of two vowels in a word is called a dipthong,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 116 pàgines
...which require vowels to express them fully. The vowels are, a, «, i, o, w, and sometimes ai andy. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are called vowels. Consonants are divided into mutes and semi-vowels.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 pàgines
...d, f, I; which require vowels to express them fully. The vowels are, a, e, I, o, w, and sometimes w and y. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllab'e ; but in every other situation they are vowels. . It is generally acknowledged by the best... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 pàgines
...anomalous nature of w and y. " The vowels," says our popular grammar, " are, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. W and y are consonants, when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are vowels." The truth of this remark may be questioned. The name... | |
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, o, u, and sometimes w and y. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are vowels. 
