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 vowel and/or mid:

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

    “At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly
    To the lone vale we loved when life was warm in thine eye,”
    —Thomas Moore (1779–1852)