def vowel_consonant_pairs(w, max=None):
    m = 0
    for i, ch in enumerate(w):
        if is_vowel(ch) and i<len(w)-1 and is_consonant(w[i+1]):
            m += 1
            # An optimisation to stop searching once we reach the amount of <vc> pairs we need.
            if m == max: break
    return m

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Returns the number of consecutive vowel-consonant pairs in the word.
dataset/ETHPy150Open clips/pattern/pattern/vector/stemmer.py/vowel_consonant_pairs