In speech generally, consonants have higher frequencies than vowels, making conversations difficult to hear for some elderly people.
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The citizenry is already perpetually shunning the importance of vowels in our language.
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As you get better you try and pick locations away from other players because there is intense competition for vowels.
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On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables.
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This is the reason we can often read sentences in which the words have all their vowels missing and make sense of them.
With her flat Yorkshire vowels uncompromised by fame, Lesley Garrett has carried the flame of opera for the people to the four corners of the globe.
The whistled language replaces each vowel or consonant with a whistling sound: two distinct whistles replace the five Spanish vowels, and there are four whistles for consonants.
The results were said to be surprising with all the vowels placed in the area assigned to the right thumb, whereas the left thumb is given more keys.
Those words incorporate vowel usage at nearly 40%, an impressive stat considering that vowels (plus the perpetually confused letter y) only make up less than 20% of the alphabet.
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"We're doing this because we believe that by eliminating vowels, we'll encourage a more efficient and 'dense' form of communication, " the company announced in its April Fools' blog post.
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.
The eternally elastic vowels of the Cantonese language bounce around the lanes as the traders harangue suppliers, and shoppers demand only the fattest fish and are told in return that they will have to pay more.
That is hasty: Britain is still a place where snap judgments are made about shoes, accents and haircuts and where the ripe vowels and superior biographies that distinguish many senior Tories might, with more tact, be turned against them.
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