Long Nasal Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowels:

“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“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)