One of the hints for today’s Wordle answer is that it contains one repeated letter. This is a common occurrence in the English language, and recognizing patterns can significantly narrow down your ...

A new computer model has learned to recognize vowel categories from multiple English and Japanese speakers without "knowing" the number of vowels it is looking for or having a complete list of ...

But the problem is, English has twenty vowel sounds, and we use these five letters of the alphabet to represent them. As a result, the same letter is used to represent several different vowel sounds.

The lack of long and short vowels means that English can’t have heavy and light syllables by the same definitions as Latin and Ancient Greek.

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