Vowel in Creek, the letter "V" stands for . There is not necessarily a direct one-to-one correspondence between the vowel sounds of a language and the vowel letters. Many languages that use a form of the Latin alphabet have more vowel sounds than can be represented by the standard set of five vowel letters. In English spelling, the five letters "A" "E" "I" "O" and "U" can represent a variety of vowel sounds, while the letter "Y" frequently represents vowels (as in e.g., "gym", "happy", or the diphthongs in "cry", "thyme"); "W" is used in representing some diphthongs (as in "cow")
Stress and vowel reduction in English word, such as "react" . For some speakers, however, there is a contrast between this vowel and in such pairs as "taxis" vs. "taxes" and "studied" vs. "studded". See English phonology – vowels in unstressed syllables. According to , there is a reduced rounded phoneme as in "willow" , "omission" , thus forming a three-way contrast with "Willa" and "Willie" or with "a mission" and "emission" . This vowel is sometimes informally referred to as schwu in analogy with "schwa". Analogously to the symbol mentioned above, Oxford University Press have devised the non-IPA symbol to represent a vowel that may