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Split vowel digraph
From Teflpedia
A split vowel digraph is a digraph consisting of two vowel letters separated either side of a consonant grapheme (a consonant letter or consonant digraph).
Overview[edit | edit source]
| First letter | Split vowel digraph | Most common sound | Examples | Sound with R | Examples | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | a-e | A diphthong | pave | Air diphthong | tare | |
| E | e-e | Long E sound | Eve | Ear diphthong | here | |
| I | i-e | I diphthong | dive | Ire diphthong | fire | |
| O | o-e | O diphthong | wove | Or sound | bore | |
| U | u-e | Long U sound | mule | Ure dipthong | pure | |
| Y | y-e | I diphthong | style | Ire dipthong | lyre |
Split vowel digraphs occur with all 5 vowel letters, plus Y. The second letter is usually an E - magic E. However, E can be elided before some suffixes, particularly spelt -y, and Y can mutate to I before suffixes.
- The sound change with R as the middle consonant is often different.
- If the middle consonant is G or C it is softened to a soft G or soft C.
Middle consonants[edit | edit source]
Various middle consonants are used:
- B, lobe
- C, ice
- D, ride
- F,
- G, Nigel
- gu rogue
- K bike
- L bile
- M time
- N nine
- P pine
- ph
- Qu toque
- R bore
- S
- T vote
- th clothe
- V
- Z
Pedagogy[edit | edit source]
English language learners, both native and non-native, tend to be taught this by contrasting words without magic E with words with magic E as minimal pairs. For example:
- pin v. pine
- hat v. hate
- cod v. code
- cub v. cube
- etc
