Assertion: vowel's sound | /r/HasProperty | short
Facets:
value: depending on the word
type: OTHER
value: despite the spelling
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The main difference between long and short vowels is that long vowels have a long sound whereas short vowels have a short sound.
text: Vowel sounds can be short, long, or silent.
text: If there are two vowels in a word, but the first vowel is followed by a double consonant, the vowel's sound is short, such as:
text: at the end of a word (with the exception being only a handful of proper names, and as a rule forms with suffixes reinsert the second "m", and the rule is that these word-final "m"s always cause the preceding vowel sound to be short (despite the spelling)).
text: Whether a vowel has a long sound, a short sound, or remains silent, depends on its position in a word and the letters around it.
text: In the English language, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. They can be pronounced with either a long sound or a short sound.
text: These medial vowel sounds can be either long or short depending on the word that they are found in.