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flauari (flowery, floury) flaua
leiariq (layering) leia
louariq (lowering) loua
SpokenEngfish II flauad (flowered).
leiad (layered). louad (lowered).
Note that eia(r) and oua(r) in rapid, especially in vulgar speech,
often pass into aea(r) and aoa(r).
When r is preceded by a short vowel, as in 'hurry' (hari), 'merry'
(meri), no ais generated.
UNACCENTEd vowEls
The two chief unaccented vowels in English are aand i, together with the rarer o. The former may be regarded as a shortened oe, as in 'her', into which it always passes when emphasised or pro- longed, but it is really nothing but a voice murmur without any defInite confIguration. The i is an intermediate vowel between i and e and might as well be written e as i. It may be regarded either as a very open i or a very close e.
The following are examples of 0: -
8temt (attempt), Cpouz (oppose), apon (upon), tadei (to-day).
soufa (sofa), menshan (mention), peishans (patience), krer8t (car- rot).
faadha (father), ona (honour), mezha (measure).
faowad (forward), shepod (shepherd).
feivarit (favourite), mezhariq (measuring).
ais often dropped before l~ n and m~ always when the Cis preceded by t or d and followed by I or n:-
met! (metal), gaadn (garden), gaadniq (gardening), mom (mut- ton).
iivl (evil), loukl (local), simbl (cymbal, symbol).
When two or more unaccented as or is follow one another, one of