break

great

steak

Yea

Yeats

Eamonn

Hargreaves

Leahy

Reagan

Seamus

 

4 responses to “ea as in break”

  1. Springbeetle Fox says:

    I want learn more about this.

    • alison says:

      I’m not sure what else there is to learn. Some words have the sound /e/ spelt ea, because they were originally pronounced more like “ee”. This spelling also helps link them to base words, as in dream/dreamt, leap/leapt, heal/health, steal/stealth etc.

  2. Celia Chrem says:

    Hi! If I may mention, the word steak can be added to this! 🙂 I am curious, would the words wear, tear, bear, and pear be considered as the long a sound as EA or is this categorized as EAR pattern?

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