As we sat beside their burrows in the cold Kalahari mornings, the meerkats sheltered behind us from the keen dawn wind. When no stumps were close by, tamer individuals would sometimes climb up our backs and take their turns as sentinels from our shoulders or heads.
12 states start with a vowel: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Utah. A vowel is any letter that is not a consonant!! A,E,I,O,U are all the vowels sometimes Y is considered a vowel.
1 Closed Syllables: A closed syllable has one and only one vowel, and it ends in a consonant. 2  Examples include in, ask, truck, sock, stretch, twelfth, and on. 3  Open Syllables: An open syllable has one and only one vowel, and that vowel occurs at the end of the syllable. 4  Examples include no, she, I, a, and spry.