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Examples— (few), (ewl),  (dewr),  (kewl). At present we cannot conveniently introduce the few words containing into the exercises.

In addition to the long sounds, and  have a short sound. The short sound of both can be represented by (yŭ). There are only a few words containing this sound and these words cannot be introduced at present.

§102. It is usual now to write and  without any mark of length over the last vowels; it is to be understood therefore that  and  always represent the long sounds given above in § 95.

For the meaning of digraph, see § 90. Some digraphs represent long vowel-sounds, and others represent short vowel-sounds.

§ 104. The long vowel-sounds are often represented by digraphs consisting of two vowels, one of which is MARKED LONG. Thus:—