threat to the common vowel

[Whealie]

But thank heavens for the Welsh

[Lutin]

I rather liked that.

[StumpyFingers]

I think English as a separate language is also on the endangered list, it is being brutalised every day and this is just the start of its decline.

[j]

Wales is good sentence for the Welsh among us who gets asked do you speak Welsh? " Dew #uck I, you E###ish t#at" 6 vowels and 14 consonant's .

[Austin]

Amongst other things this is caused by CO2 emissions & climate change. If we all stopped driving our cars vowels would rapidly make a dramatic comeback.

When I moved up North I found the vowels in the wild are a lot different than in the south. They are are also a distinct sub-species oop here - probably adpating to the generally cooler northern climate to become much harder (bath vs baarth). There also seems to be fewer "o"s (going t' pub), but lots of "e"s, (ee by gum; thee, and so on).