To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the sixth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short ...

LABOV: Well, say up, because it means that the point of the tongue that helps form the vowel is higher up in the mouth. But the difference between man and man or man. The short vowels in English ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect ...