Open Unrounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or vowel:

    “Before I am lost,
    hell must open like a red rose
    for the dead to pass.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)