(phonics) The vowel sound in the English words cat and rack, usually represented by or .
(phonics) The vowel sound in the English words cat and rack, usually represented by or . (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by the doubling of a consonant after it, such as in batting as contrasted with bating.).
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(phonics) The vowel sound in the words game and cake; . silent e]] that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in gaming versus gamming).
(linguistics, especially, UK) The vowel sound in the English words bath and castle when pronounced with an open back unrounded vowel (); associated with southern England accents.
(obsolete, colloquial, US, education) The letter A when it stands alone within a word, not forming part of a diphthong, etc.
A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
(linguistics, especially, UK) The vowel sound in the English words grass and castle when pronounced with a near-open front unrounded vowel (); associated with northern England accents.
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