Mid Back Unrounded Vowel (disambiguation)

The International Phonetic Alphabet distinguishes two mid back unrounded vowels:

  1. The close-mid back unrounded vowel
  2. 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 (1865–1939)

    “Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)