English has five letters that are vowels and sometimes a sixth y. But it has 13 vowel sounds: long and short a, e, i, o, u and ou, oy, ow. Unfortunately, every word has a vowel so the odds of getting a 1 vowel word correct is 5 out of 13. By three vowels it is down to 1 in 20. This is a setup for failure.

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