Front Rounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words front, rounded and/or vowel:

    “It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front of his door than any other man can afford.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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