![]() ![]() ** Bairns, meaning children, survives today in the Scottish dialect. That means the definition included vowel sounds that were near matches, and also occurred elsewhere than at the beginning of the word. ![]() ![]() When I studied Old English, in which alliteration reigned absolutely, we were taught to consider a line like this one from "Cædmon's Hymn",Īs containing alliterative matches in "ærest", "eorþan" and "bearnum": ær, eor, and ear. Alliteration can also refer to phonemes with similar properties, anywhere in a word. Examples: I, we, he, she, go, try, potato and tomato. Sometimes, two vowels work together to form a new sound. Other Long Vowels: A vowel at the end of a syllable is almost always long. The second vowel is silent, as in b oa t, p ai nt, and b ea ch. The first vowel is long and says its name. The use of consonance and assonance to refer narrowly to consonant and vowel repetition is a distinction, not a generally restrictive provision. In a vowel digraph, two vowels are side by side. I maintain that it may be used in the broader sense described above. Some have questioned my usage of the term alliteration here. ![]() Now, if you are really asking about a term to describe long vowel sounds apart from alliteration, you are asking a question about linguistics, and that is not really the topic of this site. The difference between long and short vowels is that a long vowel is a vowel that has long pronunciation. Based on multiple parameters, the vowels are further differentiated into long and short vowels. In this case eerie and feeling both have the ee combination, and familiar and feeling both begin with the f sound. The vowels in the English alphabet are those letters that can be pronounced by using our voices and opening our mouths. It refers to similar sounds placed close together. The only literary technique exhibited there is alliteration, but that is not limited to long-vowel sounds. ![]()
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