Closed Rounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words closed, rounded and/or vowel:

    A closed mouth catches no flies.
    Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    In former years it was said that at three o’clock in the afternoon all sober persons were rounded up and herded off the grounds, as undesirable. The tradition of insobriety is still carefully preserved.
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

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