The International Phonetic Alphabet distinguishes two mid back unrounded vowels:
- The close-mid back unrounded vowel
- The open-mid back unrounded vowel
Famous quotes containing the words mid and/or vowel:
“There, on the mountain and the sky,
On all the tragic scene they stare.
One asks for mournful melodies;
Accomplished fingers begin to play.
Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)