25-09-2016, 02:44 PM
Sam is right in respect of syllabic consonants.
A word like 'bottle', when pronounced, can have two syllables yet only one vowel. It is not that an extra vowel is inserted before /l/, but rather that /l/ acts like a vowel in its own right. Your teacher who taught you that every syllable has to have a vowel was wrong (though they were right to teach you the way they did).
Some people do pronounce 'bottle', 'rhythm', and 'button' with two vowels, but /botl/, /riðm/, and /butn/ are perfectly normal in many varieties of English.
A word like 'bottle', when pronounced, can have two syllables yet only one vowel. It is not that an extra vowel is inserted before /l/, but rather that /l/ acts like a vowel in its own right. Your teacher who taught you that every syllable has to have a vowel was wrong (though they were right to teach you the way they did).
Some people do pronounce 'bottle', 'rhythm', and 'button' with two vowels, but /botl/, /riðm/, and /butn/ are perfectly normal in many varieties of English.