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No, not really. The word "user" starts with a consonant sound, for example, even though "u" is a written vowel.
by tremon 6y ago
No, not really. The word "user" starts with a consonant sound, for example, even though "u" is a written vowel.
- asveikau 6y agoFrom what I have seen, people writing about linguistics do not usually bother specifying this distinction in this context. It is usually implied that an expression like "following a vowel" or "following a consonant" has nothing to do with orthography, but the actual phonetics. The orthography is not really considered a source of truth.