Short vowel
Short vowel - the sounds the letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, and ‘u’ spell when they occur in a closed syllable (between two consonants, such as bat, or followed by a consonant, such as at).
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Short vowel - the sounds the letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, and ‘u’ spell when they occur in a closed syllable (between two consonants, such as bat, or followed by a consonant, such as at).
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