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No, the word table has a long a sound.
The A in table has the long A sound, as in the rhyming words cable and label.(The E has a schwa or unstressed uhl sound.)
The 'a' is long, yes. The 'e' at the end is silent, but makes the 'a' "say its own name" - that is, makes it long rather than short.
It is a long A. A short A would be like in the word 'math' or like in 'cat'.
The cloth
The A has a long A vowel sound, as in table. The E is silent.
No. The A is a long A as in able and cable. The E is silent.
icebox (long I, short O) mining (long I, short I) unnamed (short U, long A) unit (long U, short I) egret (long E, short I)
Unfortunately not, 1.6 metres is 160 centimetres, so the tablecloth is 5cm short.
The column headers typically describe the content of a table using short phrases.
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Loser long or short vowel