English has 44 different sounds that fall into the following categories: consonants, digraphs, diphthongs, vowels and r-controlled vowels. Just to clarify some terms: a digraph is a sound that ...

Letter: Vowel play Published 23 April 2008 From Nancy Hoar, Western New England College The great vowel shift did not involve the shortening or the forward movement of vowels, as Michael Erard ...