Long Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowels:

“I ain’t seen the king’s face on a shilling for so long I’ve forgotten which George it is.”
—Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

“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)