So the scribes changed English spelling so that the o u sound was spelt the same as in French.

抄写员改变了英语拼写，使 ou 音的拼写与法语相同。

Now, followed by a vowel: " a" , " e" , " i" , " o" , " u" , whatever.

现在，后面跟着一个元音的情况：" a" ，" e" ，" i" ，" o" ，" u" ，等等。

For example, look at the word " four, " F-O-U-R.

例如，看“四”这个词，F-O-U-R。

A consonant is any letter that's not a, e, i, o, u.

辅音是除 a、e、i、o、u 之外的任何字母。

A vowel is A, E, I, O, U and a consonant is anything else but that vowel, okay?

元音是 A、E、I、O、U， 辅音是元音以外的任何其他字母， 好吗？

But an easy way to identify vowels is that we make them with the letters a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y.

元音都是由a、e、i、o、u组成的，有时也有y。

A vowel in English is A, E, I, O, U, and every other letter in English is a consonant.

英语中的元音是 A、E、I、O、U， 而英语中的每个其他字母都是辅音。

I started my company called The Sioux Chef -- S-I-O-U-X, a little play on words -- back in 2014.

我在 2014 年创办了名为 The Sioux Chef 的公司——S-I-O-U-X，有点文字游戏。

O U O S V A V V, a series of characters nobody's been able to explain to this day.

O U O S V A V V，至今无人能解释的一系列字符。

The next word is your, but those two vowels in the middle, O, U, instead they change and become E. Your.

Vanessa：下一个词是 your，但是中间的两个元音 O、U 变成了 E. Your。

Let's take the words you will, if we want to make a contraction with this, we could say Y-O-U apostrophe L-L.

让我们用你想要的词， 如果我们想用它来收缩，我们可以说 Y-O-U 撇号 L-L。

So we have here: " a" , " e" , " i" , " o" , " u" , and " y" .

所以我们这里有：“a”、“e”、“i”、“o”、“u”和“y”。

In English we render vowels in the following way, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y, or as it is commonly pronounced, aeiouy.

在英语中，我们按以下方式表示元音，a、e、i、o、u，有时是 y，或者通常发音为 aeiouy。

You've got your A, E, I, O, U, and Y, with various diacritics, but also D, G, H, L, and W. Hey, easy to spell.

你有 A、E、I、O、U 和 Y，以及各种变音符号，还有 D、G、H、L 和 W。嘿，很容易拼写。

So in English, we have: " a" , " e" , " i" , " o" , " u" , and " y" are the way we spell vowels.

所以在英语中， 我们有：“a” ，“e” ，“i” ，“o”，“u” 和“y” 是我们拼写元音的方式。

And one more thing to note about 'drought' is that the pronunciation and the spelling are quite different so we spell it d. r. o. u. g. h. t. But it's pronounced 'drought'.

关于 " drought" ，还有一点需要注意，那就是发音和拼写非常不同，所以我们拼写为 d. r. o. u. g. h. t。但它读作“drought”。

As a child, you were probably just told to memorize that the vowels were A E I O U, and sometimes Y. But linguists define vowels not so much as letters but sounds.

- 小时候， 你可能只是被告知要记住元音是 A E I O U，有时是 Y。 但是语言学家对元音的定义与其说是字母， 不如说是声音。