Grove Spelling Dictionary
a Latin vowel

Which letters make the ee sound?

graft: letter 3
Writtenelaeagnus

el-ee-AG-nus

The a and the e together, in that order. English readers meet ae so rarely outside old spellings like encyclopaedia and archaeology that the pair reads as an accident rather than a unit. Written as ee it looks like ordinary English and stops being Latin.

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