Sunday, February 5, 2012

Vowels

  • English Professor: Elementary question to ensure that you learned the things you should have learned in grade school: How many vowels are there in the English language?
  • Linguistics Student: Oh! I know this! Depends on your accent, but most commonly argued somewhere from 12-15. But I've also heard the argument that we have as many as 20 vowels!
  • English Professor:
  • Linguistics Student:
  • English Professor:
  • Linguistics Student:
  • English Professor:
  • Linguistics Student: ....Oh whoops. English class.
  • Linguistics Student: a e i o u
  • Linguistics Student: Five.

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