Reduced Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words reduced and/or vowels:

“Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

“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)