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O as in bone when long; as in pot when short.

W as the oo in spook when long; as in roof when short.

Y as the i in machine when long; as the e in butter when short.

E as in pen.

I as in pin.

U as in pun.

Vowels are generally long in stressed syllables; short in
unstressed. Y is the primary exception to this rule. When it appears
as the last letter of a word, it is always long whether that syllable is
stressed or not.

Diphthongs generally have one consistent pronunciation.

AE as the a in mane.

AI as in aisle.

AU as the ow in how.

EO as a combination of eh and oh.

EW as in Welsh, a combination of eh and oo.

IE as in pier.

OE as the oy in boy.

UI as the North Welsh wy, a combination of oo and ee. Note that
OI is never a diphthong, but is two distinct sounds, as in carnoic
(KAR-noh-ik).

Consonants are mostly the same as in English, with these
exceptions:

C is always hard as in cat.

G is always hard as in get.

DD is the voiced th as in thin or breathe, but the voicing is more
pronounced than in English. It is opposed to TH, the unvoiced
sound as in th or breath, (This is the sound that the Greeks called
the Celtic tau.)