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.
Each syllable has one vowel sound. (Sometimes the vowel is not written e.g., lit-tIe, but normally it is.) For example, the word permitted has 3 syllables as in (2): (2) per-mit-ted In order to identify the number of syllables, it often helps to count the number of vowel sounds in the word.