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Close-mid Front Unrounded Vowel IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|e | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|e | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The close-mid front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is e. Features of this vowel: Discussion of this vowel can easily become confusing for English speakers, as the English name of the symbol, the letter e, is pronounced with a different vowel, i, the close front unrounded vowel. This idiosyncrasy is a result of the Great Vowel Shift. This vowel does not occur by itself in English, but it forms the first part of the diphthong eɪ, which is the sound of the name of the letter A—another result of the Great Vowel Shift. eɪ is also the sound of the letters ay in play or the letters ai in bait. This vowel occurs in Spanish, and is the sound represented by the letter e in beb (="baby").
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