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W
W 23d letter of the alphabet , in form a doubled u or v. It is the usual symbol of a voiced bilabial semivowel, as in the English wing. The same semivowel occurs as second member of the dipthongs au (as in house ), ō, and oo. In twice the w represents a voiceless semivowel, w... Read more
Y
Y 25th letter of the alphabet . It was a Latin importation of the eastern Greek upsilon (see U ), which was pronounced like ü; the Romans used it for Greek words. In English y mainly represents the semivowel occurring in words such as yet; the same semivowel is the second member of the... Read more

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W
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...is the usual symbol of a voiced bilabial semivowel, as in the English wing. The same semivowel occurs as second member of the dipthongs...oo. In twice the w represents a voiceless semivowel, which is heard also in some dialects that...
Y
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pronounced like ü; the Romans used it for Greek words. In English y mainly represents the semivowel occurring in words such as yet; the same semivowel is the second member of the diphthongs ā, ē, ī, and oi. The modern...
HIBERNO-ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...garden sound like ‘kyat’ and ‘gyarden’: initial /k/ and /g/ with a following semivowel /j/. (2) Such names as Hugh and Hughes sound as if they began with a ‘ky’. (3) Such words as...

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semivowel
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English sem·i·vow·el / ˈsemēˌvouəl; ˈsemˌī- / • n. a speech sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, e.g., w or y .
vocalize
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...responses. ∎  [ intr. ] Mus. sing with several notes to one vowel. 2. Phonet. change (a consonant) to a semivowel or vowel. 3. write (a language such as Hebrew) with vowel points. DERIVATIVES: vo·cal·i·...
semi-
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...L. sēmicirculus ), semicircular XV (late L. -circulāris ). semicolon XVII, semiquaver XVI, semitone XVII (cf. late L. sēmitonium ), semivowel XVI (L. sēmivocālis ).

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Magazine article from: Romance Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...weakening of the syllable-final velar to yod--a palatal semivowel or offglide--followed by palatalization of the dentalveolar...g'l/, and /gn/--the velar consonant weakened to semivowel yod and then palatalized the following dentalveolar consonant...
Consecutive Roman numerals.(Kickshaws)
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 11/1/2004; ; 500 words ; ...ADVICE 509 RADIX 550 IDLE 551 IDLING 600 MADCAP 650 HEADCLOTH 900 ACME 901 ACMITE 1000 ME 1001 MINE 1002 GASTROCNEMII 1004 SEMIVOWEL 1005 DUUMVIR 1006 TRIUMVIR 1009 MIX 1050 DIMLY 1051 GREMLIN 1100 ARMCHAIR 1500 HUMDRUM 1501 HUMDINGER 2000 DUMMY 2001 COMMIT...
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Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the representation of semivowels. In Tagalog, unstressed high front and back vowels are always followed by the appropriate semivowel before a stressed vowel (e.g., Tag liyad, 'bent backwards', Tag buwaya 'crocodile'), whereas in Ilokano they...
Layamon and the fortunes of yogh.(Medium Aevum)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...voiced velar plosive /g/. (9) By the early Middle English period the voiced velar consonant in this position became a semivowel [w], so that OE <lagu> became ME <lawe>. That the sound change was complete by the poet's time...
Stuck in a rich man's world
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 7/25/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...of disapproval swinging back in the other direction. Not only was the woman wealthy enough to have had a purely ornamental semivowel grafted onto her Christian name, but she and her hubby (an investment banker with all the charisma of a bucket of chloroform...
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Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...spellings are discussed with ([dotted i]) fore[e],e[ae],e[aei],eaad several otheresouads including the semivowel [i],ea svarabhakti vowel,eaad evea [i]/[i:]. The spellings are compared with aon-dotted oaes, or ia the case...
ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/10/1991; 305 words ; ...printed English -- can be either vowel or consonant. Webster's New World Dictionary refers to it in certain usage as a "semivowel." Y perhaps most often appears as a vowel in the adverbial ending "-ly." Other words exemplifying its vowel form include...
The Puspasutra: A Pratisakhya of the Samaveda.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...vislesa ("coalescence or non-union [of two successive vowels]"), samkarsa-vikarsa ("contraction or separation [of semivowel combinations]"), lopa-alopa ("disappearance or non-disappearance [of visarga and certain consonants and vowels...
Stuck in a rich man's world.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 7/25/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...of disapproval swinging back in the other direction. Not only was the woman wealthy enough to have had a purely ornamental semivowel grafted onto her Christian name, but she and her hubby (an investment banker with all the charisma of a bucket of chloroform...