Words Without Vowels (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In most languages of the world, all or nearly all words have vowel sounds. In conservative rhotic dialects of English such as Scottish English, and non-rhotic English dialects such as Received Pronunciation, every lexical word must contain at least one spoken vowel in its pronunciation. In some rhotic dialects, such as General American, a word may contain no other vowel sounds if it instead has a syllabic R sound, as in word. However, there are many words that do not contain a vowel letter (defined as A, E, I, O, U) in their written form. In most of these, such as try, the letter Y stands for a vowel sound. (Abbreviations such as km are not considered words in their own right.)