Front Rounded Vowels

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

“In front of a widow’s house is a sure spot for trouble.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)