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 The letter Y is a vowel only if it creates an A, E, I, O, or U sound. 2  examples: fry, try, cry, & dry. 3  The number of times that you hear the sound of a vowel is the number of syllables in a word. 4  When two (or more) vowels are next to each other, the number of syllables depends on the number of vowel sounds. When two (or more) vowels are next to each other, the number of syllables depends on the number of vowel sounds. 2  examples: free (1 syllable), eat (1 syllable), & bio (2 syllables). 3  If a vowel is silent, it is not counted as a syllable.