Comments on: The names of all the letters in the English alphabet

By: Phil Williams

Phil Williams — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:40:53 +0000

I do agree; definitely for the ‘v’, I think that’s a bit of an oversight on my behalf and indeed your version with the longer E is more accurate. With regards to the stress marker overall, I suppose I considered that we put more of a stress on the sounds when we pronounce individual letters’ names, in contrast to if we were using the letters to spell out a word. So I’d expect a slightly different sound between saying “The letter E” vs “We spell “see” S-E-E”, though this might be a subtle distinction and I think both could certainly be argued as fair.

By: Patrick Corliss

Patrick Corliss — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 07:28:26 +0000

I understand that it is not usual to use a stress marker on monosyllables. I would, for example, represent the letter “e” simply as /i:/ in IPA (phonetically). I would also represent the letter “v” as /vi:/ to capture the full sound.

What do you think?

By: Phil Williams

Phil Williams — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:08:15 +0000

In reply to Paulo Felix.

Hi Paulo,

Oh no, that was a mistake, sorry – thanks for pointing that out. The V is pronounced /’v/ with the phonetic chart, I believe; it’s a consonant sound, not a vowel sound like U.

Phil

By: Paulo Felix

Paulo Felix — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:11:40 +0000

So, I’d like to know if “U (u) u /ˈjuː/” and “V (v) vee /ˈjuː/” have the same pronunciation. Thank you for your help.