Re: USAGE: Question about Welsh.

On Friday, June 25, 2004, at 08:17 , Joe wrote:

> Philip Newton wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:41:18 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ray Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> In words of one syllable, vowels are short:
>>>> (a) when they stand alone in words of just one vowel;
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You mean like 'i' and 'o', right?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I think he meant "words in which the number of vowels is one" and not
>> "words consisting solely of one letter, which is a vowel".
>>
>> So "pob", for example, would count.
>>
>>
>
>
> Hmm.  That can't be right.
You're right - it can't be right  :)

> He's talking about monosyllabic words all
> the way through, and surely the vast majority of those are monopthongal.
I'm talking about words of one letter only, the vowel, i.e. _a_, _i_, _o_
and _y_.

Ray
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