Somewhere along the way, what was once a scarlet letter became just another consonant in the personal résumé.
The original consonant became /b/ in the Germanic languages, the previous in turn became /p/, and the previous became /f/.
A few permanent additions or, rather, differentiations from existing letters occurred during the Middle Ages, when the signs for u and v, and i and j, previously written interchangeably for either the vowel or the consonant sound, became conventionalized as u and i for vowels and v and j for consonants.
The speaker's text was often incomprehensible, reduced to a series of consonants that became another layer of musical material, and Blaauw's double-voiced trumpet held inscrutable conversations with itself.
Simplification of clusters In the late Ancient Quenya period, when vowels were lost in long compound words, the clusters thus created, or the consonants that became final, were as a rule changed or reduced: :-m > -n; :all stops > -t; :-d > -r; :-th > -t; :-nd > -n; :-mb, -ng > -n; :-ñ > -n; :any combination with s (as -ts, -st, -ss) > -s; :any combination with -ht > -t.
This palatalization had been purely phonetic as long as the -ī that caused it survived, but in Old Irish the palatalization became independent, so that each consonant of Common Celtic evolved into four distinct consonants (i.e., phonemes); for example, from original Common Celtic b are derived a b sound and a palatalized b sound, and a v sound and a palatalized v sound.
With their country hits in the 1950s, the Louvin Brothers became renowned for their close, consonant harmonies -- a model for the Everly Brothers, among many others -- and for songs that saw every grim possibility even when they set out to be optimistic.
The 15th-century script had a few additional consonant letters that became obsolete in the following centuries and an additional vowel distinction that survived in the spellings until 1933; that vowel is usually transcribed as ă.
Sequences in the middle and late nonword point conditions (all phonotactically legal) became nonwords, respectively, at the consonant after the initial vowel (for example, at the [v] in "soivish", [soivi∫ ]) or at the following consonant/vowel (for example, at the [d] in "trandal," [trændel] or the [ei] in "skoonate," [sku:neit]).
