au. Consonant sequences in word-initial position are bl, br, pl, pr, dr, tr, gl, gr, kl, kr, fl, fr, sl, q [kw], sp, st. The only consonant sequence in root-medial position is tt in otto "eight". Consonant sequences in word-final position are nd, nt, ng, lk, rb, rd, rt, rg, rk, rm, rn, st, sk, and x [ks]. But aq, though written with final consonant, is pronounced ). Unwritten consonants and vowels Some morphemes spelled with a single consonant have an unwritten vowel, and one prefix spelled with a single vowel has an unwritten consonant: b "but" is , as in English "but" -c (a suffix) is , as if it were written co. That is, lec "mail" is pronounced , not . f "for" is , as if it were written fro m "with" is , as if it were written mit n "not" is , as if it were written not -st "-ist" is , as if it were written ist u- (participle) is (though "having" is hu rather than expected *uh) x "if" is , as if it were written ex y "was/were" is , as if it were written yo (with the y pronounced as a consonant) z "as" is , as if it were written zu & "and" is , as if it were written and In the versions of Speedwords prior to 1951, h "have/has" (perfect tense auxiliary) is , as if it were written hi; however, in the 1951 Dutton Speedwords Dictionary, we find that pre-1951 hid "hide" has become hi . It is very unlikely Dutton would have kept h and hi as homophones; but we are not told how h is now to be pronounced. Note: h (and its past tense hy and present participle hu) is used only as an auxiliary verb; "have/has" in the sense of "have/has got" is ha Some suffixes have an unwritten vowel that only occurs after certain consonants. They are detailed below. Affixes As noted above, the prefixes past-tense y- and u- do not take stress, and u- is pronounced with an unwritten engma. Me- and my- also remain unstressed when forming comparatives and superlatives, e.g. mebel "more beautiful", mybel "most beautiful". Suffixed vowels are long and take an epenthetic (English y) when following a vowel. For example, gree "awfully, extremely" (< are + e) is pronounced , mua "too (much)" (< mua + a)