This is the fifth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fourth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore ...

One of the reasons the spoken English of many people is not impressive is that they do not care to differentiate between short and long vowels. To them, any act of pronunciation goes as long as ...

The short vowels in English, pit, pet, pat, have been standing still for a thousand years, while the long vowels did their merry chase. It's called the great vowel shift. But long about 1950 ...

The most common vowel sound in English doesn’t even have its own letter in the alphabet. It does have a symbol, though, and it looks like this: ǝ. It’s the "uh" sound in an unstressed ...

Nowadays, the distinction between long and short vowels in English is actually more than just length because of the Great Vowel Shift. So, whereas before, 'bite' would have been something like ...

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that ...