Long And Short Vowel Words. What is the difference between short and long vowels? E: set, edge, deck, head, bed, echo.
A: cat, at, hat, mat, axe, apple, sack. This ESL phonics lesson features a word list comparing the short and long vowel sounds, followed by several sentences that use these sounds. Then in Modern English,some of those so-called long vowels became diphtongs.
It may seem obvious with a short, familiar word, but what if you encounter a new word that you have.
Short vowel sounds do not sound like their corresponding letter names.
The so-called "short" vowel (or short sound of the vowel) is a monophthong and the so-called "long" vowel (or long sound of the vowel) is a diphthong (considering /iː/ as [ij] and /uː/ as [uw]). When a vowel sounds like its name, this is called a long sound. What words use all five vowels?