Front Rounded Vowels

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

    Bobby read his future in women; his girls were omens, changes in the weather, and he’d sit all night in the Gentleman Loser waiting for the season to lay a new face down in front of him like a card.
    William Gibson (b. 1948)

    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)

    Playing “bop” is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
    Duke Ellington (1899–1974)