Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the -ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable.

国人则完完全全地接受了这个新术语，但很多英国使用者却不喜欢aluminum这个名字，指出其破坏了由sodium, calcium, and strontium建立起的-ium的形，因此他们aluminum的基础上加了一个元音和一个音节。

And we get the sound of this vowel.

我们了这个元音的声音。

One thing that makes English words really hard to spell is the schwa, the schwa is that uh, like in butter or unutterable.

难拼的原因之一于" 非重读央元音" [ə]，" 非重读央元音" 比如" butter" （黄油）和" unutterable" （不出的）里的[ə]。

Notice, also, that the last consonant goes into the vowel.

再注意下，最后一个辅音/v/和前面的元音融合。

Note that in American English, they say data, so the vowel sound is different.

请注意英语里他们读的是data，元音不同。

Can you write down your favorite word that starts and ends with the same vowel?

你能否写下最喜欢的一个以同一元音开始和结束的单词？

We're replacing it with what we call a diphthong.

我们用双元音代替它。

It can be a vowel sound, a consonant sound, a whole syllable.

不发音的可以是元音，也可以是辅音或是整个音节。

In each example the vowel with the long sound is first.

每一组例子长元音前。

Often, unstressed vowels have a more relaxed lip position.

通常非重读元音的嘴型更放松。

The singing of Latin brought purer vowels into the King's sound, which was pleasing.

拉丁语的歌唱给国王的声音带来了更纯正的元音，这是令人愉快的。

The lot vowel is going to be very open, fronted, no lip rounding.

很多元音将是非常开放的，前置的，没有唇圆。

You can do this by underlining the vowel where the stress is.

你可以重音所的元音划下划线来进行标注。

A word on pronunciation. We've got the expression: 'the rise and fall of', but said together, there's a lot of linking and some of the vowel sounds change.

多提一句有关发音的问题。我们已经学了“the rise and fall of”这个表达，但是放一起，有很多连读，一些元音也会改变。

These included elements of English speech such as vowels, consonants and commands.

这些包括英语演讲的元素，如元音、辅音和祈使句。

Really wide syllables, really kind of drawn out phrases.

元音拉特别长，语速也很悠闲，带点乡村风格。

The vowels -- sounds you make with an open mouth – began to change.

此时，发声时嘴巴要张开的元音开始改变。

Some words that begin with a vowel letter in writing have a consonant sound.

写作中，有些单词是以元音开头但却是辅音。

We're just doing what's called a schwa, so a schwa is a completely neutral sound.

我们只是做一个叫做 schwa（非重读音节的元音）的东西，所以 schwa 是一个完全中性的声音。

And it is the. It starts with an e sound, a vowel sound.

搭配 the。它是以元音 e 开头的。