Cardinal Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words cardinal and/or vowels:

    The Cardinal is at his wit’s end—it is true that he had not far to go.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)