Re: OT: sorta OT: cases, please help...

From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
> > > What word has VVV?
> >
> > queue /kjuw/.  (Some may have [kju:], but it's not /kju/ in the same
> > sense that, say, you'd pronounce <quiu> in Spanish)
>
> Aren't /j/ and /w/ consonants?
Well, they're semivowels.  And in this case, it's probably better to analyze
them as part of the vowel rather than independent consonants -- /(j)uw/ is, I
think, systematically a single English vowel ('at we call "long u").

In a word like "you" it might be different, I suppose.