What is Long vs. Short? In words of Latin origin our vowels are short vowels in English.
How do you know how long a vowel is in Latin? I’ve noticed that U is short in Latin words. I mean “e.g. we know about something”. What are ten other vowels?
What is your opinion on the origin of the concept of the WtF (Word-of-Month)?
Is there a way to look this up in a dictionary?
What is the difference between a long and short vowel? What do teachers teach the kiddos? If so, then you really just use the “normal” “rules” for English vowels. This are some possible sounds for u in Latin-derived words in English:
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/ju/as in the stressed syllables cuticle, Europe, funeral, humor, purify, and urine, or in the unstressed syllable of accurate and mercury. -
/u/as in the stressed syllables of juniper, juror, Rubicon and troubadour. So they are the equal syllables of juniper again.
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//as in the stressed syllables of abundant, annul, culture, custom, number – jugular pumice, and sulfur. -
Asinthestressed syllables of murmur, occur, recursive, urban, urgent, and Ursa Major.
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//,asin the unstressed syllables of DNA, Culture, Murmur, Lemur, and Sulphur. -
//as in the unstressed syllables of album, asylum, bacterium, circus, focus, illustrate, proconsul, and suburbia.
There are many other possibilities. When we look in the list as you see, there is nothing special about words that come from Latin.
What are the reasons that you can not come up with something that seems to make sense to a native language user? If so, how?
If you are talking not about English words, but rather about open and closed u in the traditional English pronunciation of Latin words, then that is perhaps something else again.
If the first vowel is followed by a consonant and then another vowel, the first vowel is long – as is the “u” in jupiter or tune If
the first vowel is followed by more than one consonant, the first vowel is short – as is the “u” in rubber or rust.
