Sentence examples for vowels from inspiring English sources

It's more evocative of the American midwest - a delicate mixture of open vowels and reluctant consonants, nearer Tom Hanks than Tom Cobley.

The more aggressive jobs - 30 seconds of screaming about massive discount sales at never-to-be-repeated prices over shots of maniacal couples strewing fivers and tenners over themselves - she leaves to those with estuary vowels and a vocal quality more suggestive of imminent violence.

Even the Italians are not bad at attempting a reasonable Bremnerish impersonation of our Nige's vowels.

It, in turn, became a success only when the Greeks had the clever idea of devising vowels to fill in the gaps between the consonants that had until then been adequate for recording Semitic tongues.Writing, Mr Fischer points out, has extraordinary power, greatest of all in modern literate societies.

It is the best system, as it incorporates the tone in the vowels of the transcription, while being of pure Chinese intellectual genealogy.

You couldn't miss it when you heard her, with her cut-glass vowels and shrieks of laughter.

Vowels, for example, go far beyond a, e, i, o and u, and sometimes y.

Some people have suggested that it is actually written in a form of ancient Ukrainian in which vowels are omitted.Dr Knight has used a statistical-translation program to debunk this theory by showing that the order and frequencies of symbols do not match those in Ukrainian.

Who knew, for example, that bel canto, an Italian opera term, came to define European classical singing mainly because the open vowels of Italian were easier to sing than French or German?

And though Letraset gave more vowels than consonants on each sheet, we always ran out of As; we drew a lot of maps and country names are full of them.As for tinted areas in the artwork (such as the areas of chalk and clay in the diagram above), they were a combination of adhesive-backed sheets of pre-printed dots and lines, and a plastic mask on film (the blue areas on the artwork).

Vowels are pronounced generously, as though there is a valley to bridge when the voice moves from the consonants before and after them.It has similarities to the Californian valley girl accent (which I acquired easily while living opposite a sorority in Berkeley, California).