Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowels:
“A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“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)