The first E has a short e sound, the second is unstressed (schwa or uh sound).
No. The long 'e' sound is 'ee.' In the word sketch, there is a short 'e' sound - the 'e' sounds like 'eh' (sk-eh-tch).
No. The adjective icy sounds like the letters I-C , with a long I and long E sound.
No, it is the short e sound, 'eh', not 'eeee'
No. It has a short E sound, as in the words bet, get, and set. The word with the long E sound is "peat."
No, the words then and there do not have long e sounds. Then has a short e, and there, rhymes with air, has a short a.
No, the words then and there do not have long e sounds. Then has a short e, and there, rhymes with air, has a short a.
No. The E is a short E as in then. Words with W and WH can have unusual vowel sounds.
Rain and cape have long A sounds; ran and cap have short A's. Bead and neat have long E sounds; bed and net have short E's. Pile and ride have long I sounds; pill and rid have short I's. Hope and wrote have long O sounds; hop and rot have short O's. Mute and pure have long U sounds; mutt and purr have short U's.
The only likely candidate is been, which sounds like bin (short I vowel sound).There are prefixed words such as reenter and preeminent which have both a long E and short E (or rarely I). In some pronunciations, some of these may lose the long E (e.g. preelection).There are also French words, such as sautéed and fiancée, which have a long A sound instead.
A long e sounds like the way you pronoune the letter e. Words like sheep, queen, tree, bee, eel. A short e sounds more like eh. Words like egg, Edison, explanation, vest, nest. In the dictionary there will be a straight line or dash above a long e (this is a long a -- ā). There will be a flattened U shaped symbol above short e (this is a short a -- ă).
The E has a short E sound and the I has a short I sound.
It's long if it sounds like the letter. Both E's are short.
The first E has a short e sound, the second is unstressed (schwa or uh sound).
No, the word "Wednesday" does not have both long and short "e" sounds. It only has the short "e" sound.
No. These words have no A sounds. Want and wanted have three possible sounds: short O, caret O, or short U. (wont, wawnt, wunt) Was has either a short O or short U sound (woz, wuz). Hear has the EA pronounced as an R-shaped long E (caret I) to rhyme with beer.
The words six and lip do, but dice has a long I and a silent E, to rhyme with mice.