Where is the long vowel in baby?

Answer 1

The "A" for sure. In the first syllable, you have "BA" (rhymes with day). You know you have a long vowel because it says its name. In this case, the letter A in "baby" is a long vowel sound. (If it were a short vowel sound, it would not be pronounced like its name-- bat, for example, has a short vowel sound.)

Sometimes, a letter like Y will have a vowel sound (in this case, it sounds like the E in the word "me"), but usually, a long vowel refers to the sound made by the letters A, E, I, O, and U. Here are examples of long vowels: Bake (long a); Me (long E); Time (long I); Joke (long O); and Tune (long U).

Answer 2

The long vowel in "baby" is the 'a' sound in the middle of the word.