Front Rounded Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words front, rounded and/or vowels:

    “You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “These equal syllables alone require,
    Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)