Close Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words close and/or vowels:

    We have scorched the snake, not killed it:
    She’ll close and be herself.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)