Front Rounded Vowels

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

    You did not expect to find such spruce trees in the wild woods, but they evidently attend to their toilets each morning even there. Through such a front yard did we enter that wilderness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The rounded world is fair to see,
    Nine times folded in mystery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)