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Are W and Y vowels? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Vowels are always voiced, and have no attack of their own So, by this definition, yes, "y" and "w" can represent vowel sounds in words Usually, when they do represent vowels, they are used in conjunction with one or more other vowels to create a polypthong: "w" represents "oo" and "y" represents "ee"
Why is one pronounced as wan, not oh-ne? The pronunciations starting with w are exceptional As far as I know, the use of w in this word is not related to French in any way As RegDwigнt's answer says, French un is similar in form to English one because the two words are cognates
Periods after directional abreviation in address Again, directionality traditionally used periods following the E , W , N and S , but as a city locator, it has followed the state abbreviation pattern of capital letters without periods (e g , FL, NY)
The mysterious, unenunciated w in the -wich of English place names The -wich suffix comes from Old English wīc, meaning ‘trading center’ or ‘harbor’, so the w certainly wasn't 'added later' It's quite normal for place family names to have 'awkward' phonemes dropped from pronunciation, or massively distorted