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...alone require, “An Essay on Criticism” – Pope 11 Tho’ oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, While Expletives their feeble Aid do join, And ten low Wo...

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... the few cases of impure rhymes being mainly those in which short and long vowels are rhymed together, e.g. “mich” : “rich” or “man” : “han.” Caesural... ...th short “i” has been cho- sen, as the lack of accent tends to shorten the vowel in such names. (14) “Gere” is likewise a late introduction. He is per...

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...ving of those blindest of the blind who will not see. The beauty of the contents of a phrase, or of a sentence, depends implicitly upon alliteration a... ...was only by looking back on what he had already written that the mystery was solved: the second word contained an open A, and for nearly half a page h...

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...he fortifica- tions of consonants by which the Slave language protects its vowels,—probably not to lose them, considering how few there are. The Marqu...

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...ows the rich- ness of the language. There are twenty-nine letters, besides vowel points; and each letter is written in four different ways, so that it... ...peculiar terminations, the law by which the 317 Yo n g e transposition of vowels and consonants is governed in gen- eral. All these things soon come ...

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...dred and thirty-two letters, viz., seventy-seven consonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northe... ...sisting of consonants only, as nrrlls; others, on the other hand, in which vowels predominate, as for instance the fifth, uneeief, or the last but one... ...out of my hands. “This begins to look just like an ancient docu- ment: the vowels and the consonants are grouped together in equal disorder; there are...

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...onant? Love’ s Labours Lost Act V, Scene i 51 MOTH: The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or the fifth, if I. HOLOFERNES: I will repea...

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... Peda. Quis quis, thou Consonant? 1791 Pag. The last of the fiue Vowels if You repeat them, 1792 or the fift if I. 1793 Peda. I ...

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...d) character. I mean simply the alphabet; sim ply the consonants and the vowels—I don’t mean any re ductions or abbreviations of them, such as the... ... penman, the saving in labor is insignifi cant. T o write that word (with vowels) with the phonographic alphabet, the pen has to make only seventeen... ...graphic alphabet, the pen has to make only seventeen strokes. Without the vowels, only thirteen strokes [ Image not avail able—ed.]. The vowels are...

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..., sir,” returned the gentle man; “pray let me listen—O.” He enunciated this vowel after a pause, and noted it down. At first I was alarmed, for an Ex...

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...arity, a foundling; which word, though only dif fering from fondling by one vowel’s length, is very different in meaning, and expresses quite another...

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...yming to ‘wept,’ ‘adapt,’ etc., occurs more frequently.)—one with the long vowel of the present- form, the other with a vowel-change (Of course, where... ...the present- form, the other with a vowel-change (Of course, wherever this vowel-shortening takes place, whether indicated by a corresponding change i... ...to indicate the pronunciation intended by Shelley. In the editions the two vowel-sounds are confounded under the one spelling, ‘leapt.’ In a few cases...

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...r, drawing a deep breath as she ended. “That unapproachable combination of vowel sounds prepares one better than anything I know for the con- templati...

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...an be read into very different senses according to the differ- ent sets of vowels which the particular reader may choose to interpolate. According to ...

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...plu- rals were abolished; its spelling was systematised and adapted to the vowel sounds in use upon the continent of Europe, and a process of incorpor...

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...ic there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words o...

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...glish. The result was that, between the two, they made such a fricassee of vowels and consonants that it was enough to turn one’s brain. The next morn...

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...,000 Leagues Under the Sea sonorous, harmonious, and flexible dialect, the vowels seeming to admit of very varied accentuation. The other replied by a...

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...tch patois, as the accent of St. James’s is from that of Billingsgate. The vowels were not pronounced much broader than in the Italian language, and t...

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...ian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua...