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From: berry@zehntel.UUCP
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Subject: Re: seven vowels? - (nf)
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zinfandel!berry    Oct 11 13:42:00 1983

There are many English words with 'w' as a vowel.  Most if not all of them
come to us from Welsh.  Here are a couple of the more common:

	cwm - a feature of a mountain.  Sort of a dell.
	      common in mountaneering.
	crwd - a Welsh stringed instrument

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