The consonant d before the vowels e and i, whether followed by another vowel or not, is pronounced as if it were j.
The consonant s before the vowels i or e is sounded as sh.
The Second Race had a 'Sound Language,' to wit, chant-like sounds composed of vowels alone.
Every letter has its occult meaning, the vowelsespecially contain the most occult and formidable potencies.
Any vowel may be forbidden, or if the players choose to make the game very difficult, two vowels may be forbidden.
Every word has one or two vowels in it, and two of these words have I in them.
The Seven (7) Vowels in question are then as follows: 1.
The Vowels and Diphthongs of this Basic Scale may be Long or Short, without any change of quality.
The Consonants being the Limitismus, and the Vowels the Substancismus of Language; the Two united and coordinated comprise the Trinismal Integrality or Integralismus of Speech.
Vowels are defined in the simplest way as those sounds which are uttered with the month open; as a (ah) in Father, o in roll, etc.
In respect to the quality of Sound, they are pronounced just as the Vowels of which they are composed would be if separated and succeeding each other.
These Sounds are nearly always followed by a Consonant-Sound in the same syllable, by which they are stopped or broken abruptly off, and the purity of their quality asVowels affected or disturbed.
Consonants and vowels should be given proper significance.
Take care of the consonants and the vowels will take care of themselves.
It cannot very well come from geck, to jest, the vowels do not correspond.
The dialects differed also in phonology, for while the northern generally retained the hard or guttural values of k, g, sc, these were in the two other dialects palatalized before front vowels into ch, j and sh.
Of these the southern is simply the old West-Saxon, with the vowels levelled to e.
The author of the Ormulum was a phonetist, and employed a special spelling of his own to represent not only the quality but the quantities of vowels and consonants--a circumstance which gives his work a peculiar value to the investigator.
In certain cases the vowels contracted, as in tres, partes, &c.
He first established the rule that in hexameter verse all vowels followed by two consonants (except in the case of a mute and a liquid), or a double consonant, must be treated as lengthened by position.
The diphthongs were produced by pronouncing in rapid succession the vowels of which they were composed, according to the above scheme.
The short sound of the vowelswas not always identical in quality with the long sound.
The Oscan and Umbrian syncope of short vowels before final s seems to be an independent change, at all events in its detailed working.
Long vowels generally remained unchanged, as in compago, condono.
The changes of the short vowels and of the diphthongs in unaccented syllables are too numerous and complex to be set forth here.
In the history of the vowels and diphthongs in Latin we must distinguish the changes which came about independently of accent and those produced by the preponderance of accent in another syllable.
Two of the most remarkable peculiarities of the dialect of the West of England, and particularly of Somersetshire, are the sounds given to the vowels A and E.
These exercises are only valuable when used with vowels correctly and naturally "placed," and that means, in some cases, years of the most careful and painstaking work.
Vowels are emitted with a nasal twang or a throaty growl that seem at times most unpardonable noises when coming from a pretty face.
It is so full of complex and trying vowels that it requires the utmost subtlety to overcome these difficulties and still retain clarity in diction.
Abrams deduces that “even numbers andvowels are female and odd numbers and consonants are male.
Thus, if the pith ball is charged negatively and the numbers 1 to 9 are marked on a narrow board and the vowels and consonants are marked on another board, it will be found--still according to Dr.
After marking the vowels diacritically read the following passages, paying special attention to the vowel sounds: So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day.
That vowels long by nature may appear to become short by position, and vice versâ.
Compared with a in fate, and the o in note, a in father, and the aw in bawl, are broad; the vowels of note and fate being slender.
The letters i and u were dealt with as semivowels, semi-vowels being dealt with as consonants; so that words like sunu and gifu belonged to the same declension as smið and sprǽc.
The primary division of our articulate sounds is into vowels and consonants.
Upon the comparative extent to which the voice is prolonged, the division of vowelsand syllables into long and short has been established: the o in note being long, the o in not being short.
This difference between the parts preceding the vowelsis essential; since, if it were not for this, the two words would be identical, or rather there would be but one word altogether.
The vowelsbelonging to the English language are the following twelve:-- 1.
This fact illustrates the difference between the vowels and the consonants.
The English language abounds in orthographical expedients; the modes of expressing the quantity of the vowels being particularly numerous.
Compare the German form nacht-i-gale, and remember the tendency ofvowels to take the sound of -ng before g.
Make a Cambril over the vowels to make ’em long; and this will cure innumerabl errors, and there will be no more mistakes or abuse of the vowels, and this will save a world of truble.
In Latin the long unaccented vowels and the final syllable, which was never protected by the accent, were peculiarly likely to lose their full value.
The quality of vowels as well as their quantity changed.
Some scholars go so far as to maintain that in course of time all distinction in quantity in the unaccented vowels was lost in popular Latin.
And thus there are in this paragraph, after we have done our subtraction, sixty-four vowels and two hundred and twelve consonants.
That is about a fifth, as in the alphabet, where there are six vowels among twenty-six letters.
On this occasion he sought to establish the order in which the letters were reproduced--vowels first, consonants afterward.
Spanish vowels have each one sound only, but this sound is influenced by accent or stress, the emphasised vowel being naturally longer or fuller than the same vowel when not emphasised.
In dividing into syllables, a consonant between two vowels belongs to the vowel following it.
The little ragged boys in the streets of Rome and Florence enunciate their vowels in a style of which princes might be proud.
The vowels are the emotional elements and the consonants are the intellectual elements.
Equal freedom in the delivery of vowels and consonants.
Vowels are produced with an open channel from the vocal cords to the outer air.
If language consisted entirely of vowels learning to sing would be much simpler than it is.
When these vowels can all be sung with perfect freedom transpose upward by half steps.
They have learned how to produce vowels with a free throat but not consonants.
Thus far in preparing the head voice we have used the vowels oo and o.
Keep it down below the level of the teeth, otherwise your vowels will be imperfect.
Vowels and consonants, then, constitute the elements of speech.
By means of vowel sounds alone emotions may be awakened, but when definite ideas are expressed, words which are a combination of vowelsand consonants must be used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vowels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
