Front Rounded Vowels

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

    “my face I don’t mind it,
    Because I’m behind it—
    ‘Tis the folks in the front that I jar.”
    —Anthony Euwer (1877–1955)

    “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)