California Vowel Shift

Famous quotes containing the words california, vowel and/or shift:

    “But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and church.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

    “Let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
    But shift away.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)