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 ...

We looked at each themed word families where we changed the short vowel sounds but kept that ... What are some other examples? Yeah. Do and to. You have that, making that long sound.

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 ...

This is the first of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the first of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore ...