Open Unrounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or vowel:

    O wind, rend open the heat,
    cut apart the heat,
    rend it to tatters.

    Fruit cannot drop
    through this thick air—
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

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