Grove Spelling Dictionary
a vowel with no colour

clamentine or clementine?

graft: letter 3
Writtenclementine

KLEM-uhn-teen

Clementine. The first vowel is short and stressed, and short stressed e and a sound close enough in fast speech that a is a reasonable thing to write. The word gives you no phonetic help here. It gives you a historical one: the fruit is named for Frère Clément, and the name is spelled with e.

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