Add to ORKGThe phoneme is undoubtedly a crucial and indispensable aspect of the study of phonetics and phonology. Giegerich (31) defines the phoneme as a minimal contrastive sound unit of a language. They are contrastive units because they distinguish words. Jowitt (2005) further affirms this by adding that segments or phonemes are vowels and consonants, of which syllables are composed. In spite of this, the phoneme has over the years, to speakers and learners of English Language appeared to be only a theory or letter representation of phonetic notations. This research examines the above notion and corrects it by analysing some vital aspects of segmental phonology as evidence to the fact that the phoneme is and can be realised AFRREV LALIGEN