long a's

A form of long a — The vowel sound in the words game and cake; /eɪ/. (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in gaming versus gamming).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of long a
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “long a's,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/long%20a's.

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