In this lesson, we'll cover the remaining letters.

								
l	-l	r	-ə	y	w	h	'	-

Only four letters need explanation:

• The -l sound is the dark L after a vowel, for example in words like call cell kill cull coal cool. If you say it out loud, you'll realize it's not the same sound as the l before a vowel, as in lack let lick luck look Luke.
• The -ə letter above plays the role of r after vowels in Island English, as you saw in the previous lesson. But before a vowel, all dialects use the normal r  above.
• The last two letters above are the Catch, which is heard in utterances like uh-oh!, and the Break, which is used to separate syllables unexpectedly. But the Catch replaces t in many British dialects, too.

Laterals

Semivowels

Glottals

Exercises

Now that you know all the letters, I'm going to give you a sneaky quiz. In each line of the poem below, I've intentionally misspelled one word. Your mission is to mark all four of the errors with a following blot!

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