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Letter: Sounding off

Charles Rogers
Sunday 12 May 1996 23:02 BST
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Sir: Leo Chapman writes (Letters, 10 May) that the English alphabet has only one consonant ("v") that has one sound, cannot be produced by other combinations of letters and is never silent. Even the letter "v" fails this test: the combination "ph" in "Stephen" is pronounced "v".

Charles Rogers

Milton Keynes

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