Closed Unrounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or vowel:

    Pray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips,
    Think but one thought of me up in the stars.
    William Morris (1834–1896)

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