Central Unrounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words central and/or vowel:

    “Incarnate devil in a talking snake,
    The central plains of Asia in his garden,
    In shaping-time the circle stung awake,
    In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)