Hi Phil. At 13:38 -0400 2002-09-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >And isn't W a vowel in English too? As in the word "few"?
The thing is, vowels and consonants are spoken. Orthographies (alphabets and other kinds) may represent those with one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many relationships. Hmmm -- [fju:] doesn't correspond one-to-one with f-e-w, does it? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
