 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...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 - English language - 1809 - 352 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English language - 1819 - 120 pages
...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.... | |
 | L. Murray - 1821 - 620 pages
...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 - English language - 1823 - 116 pages
...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.... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Hazen - Spellers - 1830 - 230 pages
...a full and perfect sound of their own . The following are the vowels : viz. a, e, i, o,u,w, and y. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable. The consonants can not be distinctly sounded without the aid of a vowel ; as, be, ce, el, em. The mutes... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pages
...dee ee ef jee aitch i or eye jay kay el em en o pee cue ar ess tee u or you vee double u eks wy zed 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 semivowels. The... | |
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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. 
