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ae ea ai ia ao oa au ua ay ya ei ie eo oe eu ue ey ye io oi iu ui iy yi ou uo oy yo My suspicion is that if any of these combinations occurs in a syllable of a word, one letter has a fair chance
We already know that it is safe to drop one letter of double consonants but what about double vowels “a”, “e”, “i”, “o” and “u”? We learned in an earlier post that “oo” has the “u” sound and is written with a ”u”. I scanned the list of words output
When a word contains double consonants, is it always safe to delete one letter? I did a deep dive into this topic by using a word finder tool to generate and examine a list of common words for every possible double consonant. I concluded the answer is yes with a
If the letter “c” has a hard sound, it is written. However , if “c” has a soft sound like the letter “s”, just substitute the letter “s”. This commonly occurs when a word ends in “ce”. For example, words like face, race and nice can be shortened to fas, ras