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How to Pronounce a Short Vowel in Harry Potter?
A y is really interesting, and it's not one that we'll actually spend a lot of time on here to day. It comes from the original greek vowel of y that latin speakers would have used back when classical latin was spoken. Can anybody mimic what that eye sounds like in petrifigus totalis? Eh? Eric, do you think that's a short vowel or a long vowel? Oh, i always get this wrong. Is that a short vowel. Ye. Mica, why? Correct? Yes. This is audio, just ta they know it's we have been raising our heads, except for this bad slitern student yes. We'll say five
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