| 单词 | vowel |
| 例句 | He pronounced the demon word again as if delighted with the sheer sound of the full vowels. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Consonants, you knew pretty much where they stood, but you could never trust a vowel. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I breathed like I read, slowly, sounding out each word, tasting the vowels, chewing on the consonants. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Alex hates how much he likes the way that one stupid vowel curls in his accent. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In the eighth century B.C. the Greeks became the first people to indicate all vowels systematically by the same types of letters used for consonants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Er,” Henry says, adding to the list of vowel sounds he has to show for himself. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Olanna sat down; she liked the honesty, the firm vowels, and the quiet assuredness of the voice on the radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Note—ex- is used before a root beginning with a vowel. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z He can’t pronounce his r’s properly, and his vowels come out all wrong. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She stumbled over some of the Hebrew; in places the text was so old, the letters were worn away, and in others she couldn’t remember where the vowels were supposed to go. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I liked the way he formed his vowels. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z An M followed by a vowel, then a consonant, then a vowel, then a consonant. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Voices with the pulled vowels and cut lilt of my father. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Nathan felt the hard, short consonants and the long, lyric vowels weave together. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He had a rich voice, and being from Alabama, he had a soft way of drawing out his vowels when he sang. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He spoke English with an Igbo accent so strong it decorated even the shortest words with extra vowels. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And second, because I agree with them that something rather troubling and unsatisfactory happens to words ending in vowels when you just plonk an “s” on the end. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He barely had an accent: It only came through in the sharpness of his vowels and the lilt in his sentences, as if there was the shade of a question in everything he said. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Generally speaking, Americans like their presidents to have no more than two vowels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He muddles his vowel sounds, drops some consonants and even whole syllables. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z For myself, I am still haunted by those vowel sounds and those uniquely ungrammatical sentences only she could dream up! The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the –ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His oppression began with a long vowel “o.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Maine speech is very like that in West Country England, the double vowels pronounced as they are in Anglo- Saxon, but the resemblance is doubly strong on Deer Isle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose they’ll teach you to use more vowels in school.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Note the tangle of vowels at the end. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And soon enough, that’s what he was doing, nailing those vowels on the button, riding them from consonant to consonant, syllable to syllable, word to word. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, my daughter created it,” I hear her boast, trilling her “r” ’s, clipping her vowels even more precisely than usual, as if her accent were partly responsible for the painting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It could not be a problem she ever encountered, with her educated upper-crust vowels, but being a Scot, she sympathized with any distrust of the soft Southern English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z "But not when it's at the end of a word. Sometimes 'y' is a vowel and sometimes it's a consonant." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The rule of the game is that a card with a vowel on it always has an even number on the other side. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tony Blair’s glottal stops and flattened vowels in office were an attempt to downplay his private school background, as is David Cameron’s plausibility-stretching insistence that he’s “middle class.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Tongues explored the edges of words, especially the fat vowels. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Not open with vowels the way Spanish was. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He got out before the Cold War ended, before missile shields and global warming and September 11 and a second President with only one vowel in his name. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The first letter was M. I started back at A and pointed very pointedly at the vowels because I knew a vowel would follow. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But what if the h sounds like a vowel or the u sounds like a consonant? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Bengalis send out their vowels and consonants like survey drones—to test the identities of their listeners, to sniff out their sympathies, to confirm their allegiances. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That was the way my mind lurched and stumbled, among the sharp R's and T's, sliding over the ovoid vowels as if on pebbles. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z My voice is like the keys, following the instructions of the letters, vowels, and other signals on the page. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Levy said with his distinctive Baltimore drawl: a trace of a southern twang with words contracted and vowels swallowed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When she handed the bills to Petey, she said, “Sooooooo,” drawing out the vowel with such forced casualness that a first grader would have been suspicious. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Imagine a sound with a whole lot of high vowels, and I think you’d have it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But my lips won’t come together to make even simple sounds like that, so most of my noises are vowels. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Odd vowels, clipped words, and always a hiss on the letter s . . . no wonder it's impossible not to mimic them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I realized it wasn’t just my voice that had changed, but my pronunciation of the words themselves, the vowels marked by a clear Russianized dialect. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The farmer was a spare man, with what we think of as a Yankee face and the flat vowels we consider Yankee pronunciation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They spoke in that fancy Valley Hope way, enunciating their consonants and rounding their vowels, and it was hard to tell whether they were sincere or sarcastic. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z These are my main communications with my brother now, these raspy tin can words, sentences without vowels, the Morse of feet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A special spot?wavex?scrambler also caused his televised image, in the area immediately about his lips, to mouth the vowels and consonants beautifully. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z A name with more than two vowels in it running for President! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The sound of the last word, the way I draw out the vowel, makes me hear how much I wanted that. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z He’d loved her accent—the vowels of a princess, courtesy of her teachers at the Little Palace. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The third and last innovation leading to modern alphabets was to provide for vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The French vowels had a musical twang, but she could just about understand him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even better is one syllable and one vowel: Bush. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The guttural eruptions and long flowing vowels rolled just beneath my comprehension like a beautiful brook. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn’t tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She is even taller than von Linden, and her French has all the same broad twangy American vowels as her English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He spoke like an understudy for Al Pacino, all spit and curved vowels. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I happily picked up three more letters—all vowels. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z If he had to read the names of the ministers of Japan or Zaire, or any name containing more consonants than vowels, or more vowels than consonants, he would embarrass himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Rather than argue with Raoul’s construct of reality, I just tell him that I’m not allowed to talk to people with too many consecutive vowels in their name. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z If he misses two days of kindergarten in a row, he’ll probably miss, like, a whole letter of the alphabet And what if it’s a vowel? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “All right,” in all vowels, no consonants. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He initially devised 200 syllabic signs and gradually reduced them to 85, most of them for combinations of one consonant and one vowel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is the way Chinese sounds, chingchong ugly, to American ears, not beautiful like Japanese sayonara words with the consonants and vowels as regular as Italian. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d thought nothing could be worse than listening to him drone about the proper inflections of my vowels; now I’m starting to wonder if I was mistaken. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Were it not for the lack of Home Counties vowels, you could almost imagine him among the cast of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. If you enjoyed those Peter Kay one-liners, they were probably written by Emo Philips 2010-07-09T23:14:00Z Some of her vowels have a British inflection, others a tropical, Latin slowness. Need a Broad? Call Turner 2011-04-03T02:14:35Z The line "you're Welsh, you wouldn't notice that the vowels were missing" was very good. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode seven 2011-08-20T05:03:01Z At the moment I drag and solo in a bitten landscape, torn vowels that sound out vowel or sadness like glitter sprinkled in a mind. 2016: Our Year in Poems 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z For 37 years, Vanna White has sashayed back and forth across the “Wheel of Fortune” stage, revealing tens of thousands of consonants and vowels and making five-inch heels look easy. Vanna White Takes a Spin as ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Host After 37 Years 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z And so, as a True Loser, he suggested a contest with digraphs — blends of two letters, either vowels or consonants, that make one simultaneous sound. Style Invitational Week 1303: Neologisms to di- for 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z After school, I pored over that thesaurus, learning words to replace the dreaded vowel words. ‘I stood there, mouth gaping, words stuck’: how a comedian cured her stammer 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z There’s truth, not art, in the handsome, meaty faces and broad vowels of the men and women Berlinger interviewed. Home Movies: Who’s the Bigger Criminal, Whitey Bulger or the FBI? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen – more vowels than clothing – is being married off to a massive Dothraki fellow in order to further her mad brother’s ambitions to reclaim the Iron Throne. What happened when our TV critic watched 67 hours of Game of Thrones? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z It certainly doesn't help that Turk's Higgins, an arrogant tyrant of vowels and self-serving patriarchal values, edges frequently into sitcom territory. 'Pygmalion' falls short in uneven Pasadena Playhouse revival A week ago you could hear a swirl of Atlanta, Texas and the tight, taut vowels of the Upper Midwest. The Art of Summer: Summer?s Over; the Game Begins 2011-09-07T22:27:57Z Babies summon their energy to push out that new consonant sound “MMMM” and then relax into an open mouth vowel, usually “ah” — which is the easiest. Why all babies say “mama” 2013-05-13T16:16:00Z This results in a longer vowel pronunciation in each word. Do accents disappear? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z He’s simple in his banter, his manner, even his name, all of whose vowels you could buy for $250. Pat Sajak Was the Center of the Wheel 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z If you're just looking to win within the allotted six guesses, then you may want to consider a word with fewer vowels – and definitely a word that ends in a consonant. Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first guess 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Ethereal choral vowels floated by as men and at least one elf died slow-motion deaths in battle. A Musical Trip to Middle Earth 2010-10-09T15:28:00Z “These beautiful vowel sounds could have been yours but instead from sea to shining sea you speak like you just burnt your tongue on a hot apple pie.” John Oliver Reminds U.S. What It Lost on Independence Day 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The choir produced a marvelous resonant sound on Monday, singing those lovely rounded Finnish vowels and unison melodies with buoyant clarity. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z “They wore tweed and offered me snuff. They were clubbable men with battered Range Rovers and vowels that bespoke Eton and Oxford.” Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z So, I have written that in America, opera should be performed in English as much as possible, despite that Italian has pretty vowels. Patience Is a (Sexual) Virtue 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z In her monologue she willfully mispronounces words, adding long vowels or French pronunciations for variety. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z Tracing regional dialects creates a sort of audio map of history, with ethnicity, migration and other languages affecting every vowel sound that crosses our lips. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “The length of the vowels and the repetition of the consonants in French are quicker.” Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’ arrives at Met Opera in original French 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Pinched but sturdy, she slices her vowels without overdoing it. The Audience – review 2013-03-10T00:06:29Z They may also object to the Babel of accents bending the vowels and smearing the consonants in a play about speech. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z And with that deep, rumbling voice, like an organ echoing in a cathedral, he sounds the way a Renaissance pope should sound: the sibilant S’s, the luxurious drawn-out vowels suggesting knowledge acquired outside the seminary. Plum Role: History?s Ultimate Godfather 2011-03-25T20:53:57Z But she is also from a generation of British women specialising in strong characters, steeped in the classics, with perfect vowels and a hint of hockeysticks. Alex Kingston: 'Lady Macbeth freaked me out' 2013-06-19T18:30:05Z And, in the second bridge, when she gets to “That’s when we kiss ‘n kiss ‘n kiss ‘n ooh we kiss some more,” she drops some of the vowels, as if her mouth is multitasking. Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ 2013-01-04T21:54:52Z They are all dreadful, each of them drawling a whale-song gurgle of valley girl vowels where anyone else would use actual words. Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club: the reality show we really didn't need 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z She told him he was forcing his vowels. For Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli O’Hara, a Fearsome Fairy Godmother 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z The sole actor who has unwavering command of a Wisconsin accent is Ms. Wieland, whose Bree is a magnificent creature: all broad, nasal vowels and adolescent angst. Review: ‘Breitwisch Farm’ Brings Chekhov to Wisconsin 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z I landed on the "I" vowel, as in "time," which in much of the southern U.S. is pronounced more like "Tom." What makes us subconsciously mimic the accents of others in conversation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z "I could draw on Arabic vowels. There were so many things I could tap into to make it authentic," she said. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian hopes to give voice to her Armenian ancestors 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But if you're playing to win in as few guesses as possible, it's best to play a word that has two vowels and three consonants: All of the top 10 have two vowels. Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first guess 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z "Yeah, I mean, looking back now it makes complete sense," she admits, in the soft, flat northern vowels bequeathed to her by a Whitley Bay childhood. The rise of Andrea Riseborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z I had to prep really hard to show the right sound of the vowels and the intonation of that character, so that we get really a sense of how traditional Korean Hae-sung is. "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z His voice retains the clipped cadence and flattened vowels of his Bronx upbringing, and he is given to frank disclosure. Arts & Leisure: Richard Price and CBS?s Harlem Crime Drama ?NYC-22? 2012-04-05T16:11:57Z As for her delivery, it’s a needling imitation of a black Southern voice, with syllables that twang in the wrong direction and vowels that curve into sour shapes. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z As the emotional content rises, the vowels stretch into song – "why oh why", "no air, no ground". Piccard in Space ? review 2011-04-03T21:15:01Z When she turned to Russian, the vowel sounds were certainly different, but there was no way to discern the text, or the language. At the Phillips Collection, soprano Abigail Mitchell has room to grow 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z I pored over that thesaurus, learning words to replace the dreaded vowel words. ‘I stood there, mouth gaping, words stuck’: how a comedian cured her stammer 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Mostly, he needs to trust that, although vocal beauty lies in the vowels, it is the consonants that convey the drama. Diderot String Quartet’s odd rendition of Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Time was that you had to be an experimental weirdo to ditch vowels. Where Have All the Vowels Gone? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Once you have found your flip, you can start playing around with vowels. How to escape your phone and other life hacks 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The vocal part is a kind of toned, modulated speaking: vowels elongated, pitches bent, full of whispers and rasps. Review: A Trio of Micro-Operas in the East Village 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The elasticity of the vowels in “imagination” — by both singers — is South Bay Los Angeles. Critic’s Notebook: Black Flag Returns, in Two Permutations 2013-05-29T16:39:52Z “My hot take is that vowels are overrated, because your brain naturally fills in vowels more easily than consonants,” said Erin Parker, a beauty educator in Los Angeles. When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z I utterly forgot that Stevens was English while watching the film; his physical and verbal language are completely natural, with none of the overacting or ostentatiously flattened vowels that so often accompany Brit-doing-Yank. “The Guest”: “Downton Abbey” heartthrob wreaks havoc on America 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The quality described as Southern drawl may be related to the way some speakers vocalize words like "dress" and "hair" with a lengthened glide between vowels and syllable break: "dray-ess" and "hay-ur." TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z That is also the charged word that the bass-baritone Davóne Tines couldn’t help but suggest when he vocalized on the vowel “oh.” Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Some time later the Greeks morphed it into a vowel, and from there it slid seamlessly into the Roman alphabet. The story of O in design 2010-03-16T22:00:00Z Translating from a Romance language, whose words end in soft vowels, saps some of the soothing sway, according to Jobim’s son Paulinho, a musician. ‘Girl from Ipanema:’ Re-imagining a classic for today’s Rio 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z She pronounces “vinos” as if it rhymes with “rhinos,” stretching out each vowel like an announcer at a boxing match. Kaitlyn Bristowe has become Bachelor Nation’s unlikely lifestyle guru. A scrunchie for $15, anyone? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It helped steer the curve of vocalized vowels in Motown and every town. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z As exercises he suggested modifying the vowel or broadening the interval to “a Tarzan trill,” unleashing merry hooting all around the room. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that the more often vowels are dropped, the more people get used to it and make adjustments to rapidly understand implied meanings. Where Have All the Vowels Gone? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Pity the personal essayist, fated to play with a reader’s tolerance for that most cursed of vowels. Up Close and Personal: New Essays From Leslie Jamison 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The title track features what’s presented as the least-performed singing — listen to how she flattens out the vowel sounds, as a sort of gesture of accessibility — but it is too unsteady to lean on. Lady Gaga’s Stripped-Down New Album Fishes for Inspiration 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Student draws out her vowel sounds in proper Atlanta fashion and is partial to densely packed, quickly spat rhymes. New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z There's a lot of spoken dialogue and I was doing my best to not sound too horribly American - - to soften my rs and elongate my vowels. How we made: Ivan Fischer and Tom Randle on ENO's The Magic Flute 2012-10-08T17:51:31Z Once, when the Irishman barked orders from somewhere within his vast royal jerkin, his jaw muscles would twitch manically with the effort of keeping his vowels tied to their moorings. The Tudors: who said history was dull? 2011-01-21T15:09:16Z He carried many of his demons with him, along with the West Country vowels that give an incongruous Somerset lilt to his wilder urban tales. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z This occurs most frequently after certain vowels, so that a phrase like "far apart" could be pronounced like "fah apaht," with the "r" sound vocalizing, or turning into a vowel. Do accents disappear? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Louis is given a very unlikely Mad Men-like American buddy, who tortures those French vowels something rotten. Populaire – review 2013-05-30T20:29:00Z King’s name is broken down into phonemes: a barely decipherable vowel here, a consonant there, to be dispensed at widely spaced intervals. A Revolutionary ‘Sinfonia’ Returns to the Philharmonic 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z In person, her bright eyes, smooth skin and famously fluttering voice — restrained in conversation, though the occasional vowel sound answers a higher calling — project youthful tenderness. Erykah Badu Helped Define ‘Wokeness.’ Now She’s a Target. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Rihanna has maybe three dozen words between the first two verses, but her meaning is clear from the delivery, which is forceful and slurry, alternating between stretched and staccato vowels. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna’s Album ‘Unapologetic’ Makes Most of Her Talent 2012-11-20T18:20:20Z "Dab" is a Michael Jackson-sampled work that, according to Oswald, "consists of all the vowels Mr. Jackson sang in the recording 'Bad.'" Revisiting the transitive nightfall of John Oswald's 'Grayfolded' 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z But the song takes off in the nonverbal moments of the chorus, when electric guitars surge and the Soweto Gospel Choir backs him in the exultant vowel sounds of “i, o, i, o.” Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z With her blonde hair and honeyed home counties vowels she made the whole foul business of property development seem like some sort of social service. Property shows: room for improvement? 2011-08-10T13:27:22Z Sweaty with fear, I stared at the crowd – then, mangling vowels in a youthful mockney accent, indignantly shouted one word: "What!" Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z The text of his Mass is that of an ancient Egyptian Coptic hymn that consists of only free-floating vowels. Johann Johannsson’s ‘Drone Mass’ Bridges Ancient and Modern at Temple of Dendur 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z It's a myth that everyone in the south talks slowly – it's just that the stress falls on different vowels. Behind the scenes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012-10-05T14:45:40Z In one snaggle-toothed smile, unpredictable vowel or tremor of cowardice, a Brit can offset the blemishless swagger of the leads without undermining them. Michael Sheen, Passengers and why Hollywood's hottest leads need a quirky Brit 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And in a different register — with a little more erotic fire, a rougher finish and broader vowels — Tony Curtis managed a similar feat. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z Between George Bush–world argot and fudging some vowels together at falafel stands, I lived in the Middle East just fine. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z Some actors luxuriate in the Mississippi vowels while others, such as Debra Monk's Big Mama, decline to offer any discernible accent at all. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – review 2013-01-18T10:08:04Z SuperLoser Jesse Frankovich, reminding the Empress that we hadn’t done this contest in more than a year, also noted that last year’s grid was notably short on vowels for our purposes. Style Invitational Week 1354: As the Word Turns 5 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z "I'm too cold to turn the page over," drawled Alan Bennett in his familiar Yorkshire vowels, sending ripples of laughter through the several thousand-strong crowd in Trafalgar Square. Book lovers flock to hear Trafalgar Square readings 2011-03-05T00:21:25Z Dressed casually in button-down shirt and sneakers, Quinn is big on the virtue of long vowel sounds. ‘Small Talk’ Review: The Art of Meaningless Banter 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z She tends to let her vowels run as hot as the emotional moment demands, sometimes smearing the edges of her words as if she’s buttering the beat. Review | Everything Cardi B says is music 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Instead, the vowels in “lightened” and “strife” chime. The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem About the Death of a Child 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z As the poem put it, “No / more vowels carrying images / leap suddenly from my excited / unwitting mind and purple Bic pen.” Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Cultural sensitivities: Use the correct vowel: It’s Colombia, not Columbia. Why your next vacation should be in Colombia 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z She points to vanity plates as proof of her theory — the vowels are always missing, but the meaning is still clear. When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z “It’s been fascinating to see a word become its consonants, lose its vowels, be connected to an arm movement.” Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls: Surveillance and the Black Experience 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Among those suppressing his naturally plummy vowels is Patrick Stewart. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stratford-Upon-Avon Edition 2011-07-22T21:16:12Z As he speaks, the vowels crash together, and the words change speeds, echoing the jazz inflections of beat poetry and evoking synesthesia. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z The local dialect, too, was something I knew to be regarded by many in Bohemia as a more correct version of the Czech language, with crisper consonants, shorter vowels and numerous archaisms. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z But during the rehearsal, observed by video call, Treloar sang the word as though it were a grand encore, teasing its vowel sound into generous helpings of ornamentation. An Eagerly Awaited Opera, Delayed by the Pandemic, Opens at Last 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z In the northern accents he created for both Clegg and Wallace, vowels suddenly elongate, deepen or squeal, the voices seeming on the verge of bursting into song, and sometimes doing so. Peter Sallis: veteran actor with charm, presence and an unmistakable voice 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Her vowels were nasal, her patois unmistakably Brooklyn; she had a gorgeous, frankly Semitic face. Review: How Streisand Became a Symbol, by Neal Gabler 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z A Southerner working as a news anchor in the North might avoid using elongated vowels. ‘What’s up with that white voice?’: The tricky art of linguistic code-switching 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Thirty seconds into the barbecue, my Cleveland cousins have everyone speaking Southern—broadened vowels and dropped consonants, whoops and caws. In ‘Playlist for the Apocalypse,’ the Weight of American History and of Mortality 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z As the interval approaches, Eliza is finally able to pronounce "the rain in Spain" with royal family vowels and this being a musical the breakthrough calls for a song. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z It's a Salfordian syrup, all glottal stops and elastic vowels, rhythmic and hypnotic. John Cooper Clarke; Assignment: radio review 2013-05-03T06:00:22Z But there is something almost terrifying about a woman whose theatrically honed voice -- full-bodied with crisp consonants and rounded vowels -- pours forth in complete paragraphs with nary an "er" or an "um." ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Christine Baranski on 'The Good Wife' and Competing With Maggie Smith 2012-09-18T20:28:48Z Mason started the Kander and Ebb classic at a purr, soon hissing the consonants and snarling the vowels. Karen Mason delivers a pungent show for Valentines 2011-02-11T17:16:49Z The verdict is that my accent gets particularly Manc when I am pronouncing long vowels. The rise of ‘accent softening’: why more and more people are changing their voices 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Sitting outside on the church steps, he spoke in an unhurried Texas accent, marked by squared-off vowels. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z And when she echoes the way YG hits his thick, low vowel sounds, she shows a flash of a sense of humor, too. The Playlist: Mariah Carey Shakes It Off, and Depeche Mode Looks for Revolution 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Five minutes into it, she began to sing in a wordless moan that felt ambiguous, then more specific, as if she were trying to locate a secret vowel between “uh” and “oh.” Review | Kim Gordon’s tribute to Yoko Ono: Cool and screamy, with a guitar on your face 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Still, I quite like her, mainly because she is the only one not speaking entirely in vowels. Big Brother's return 2011-08-18T19:25:00Z Sit a few rows back and let the plummy vowels wash over you. Sparkling performances buoy revival of British comedy ‘On Approval’ 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Performing some of the chanson parts on a textless vowel deflated some of the beautiful imitations among parts in this repertory. Review | Orlando Consort shares stage with a tiny Renaissance book at the Library of Congress 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z In their breadth and daring, they are akin to opera, except that the words are not a sequence of singable vowels but real thoughts that ripple with specificity. It’s Not the Music. It’s Not the Lyrics. It’s the Drama. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The question posed by the first line was a confident opening, and I particularly liked the image "a dowry sack of vowels" brought to the altar. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z But as spoken in original pronunciation, the repetition of the double vowel sound breaks the famous rhythm. Shakespeare the Way It Was Meant to Be Spoken 2013-09-20T14:29:04Z Intonation tends to rise at the end of sentences, while vowel sounds tend to shift in such as way that the word "brown" ends up sounding more like "brune." The exit factor: Britain's sweetheart dumped in US 2011-05-27T16:24:13Z “Worser than ever,” he said in a regional accent that is all suppressed consonants and rug-muffled vowels. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z A few speak with the tightened vowels that many Americans associate with Mike Myers’s Dr. Evil, his imitation of the Canadian Lorne Michaels in the Austin Powers movies. ‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z Now the names become a blur, there’s Venus and something with an E or an O or maybe a U, a vowel. When I learned to hunt 2013-01-06T01:00:00Z "I think that you have to have a healthy mix of consonants and vowels, and a lot of words come with an 's,'" Harris said in an interview published Monday. Take notes: Here’s Kamala Harris’ winning Wordle strategy 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z He drew particular notice in 1976 for his performance in the company’s production of Georges Feydeau’s “A Flea in Her Ear,” playing a character who can pronounce only vowels. Peter Scolari, ‘Newhart’ and ‘Girls’ Actor, Is Dead at 66 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The title track is beautifully wistful, and I Can't Move finds him layering vowels, like a painting done with sound. Martin Creed: Love to You – review 2012-06-28T22:00:01Z That individual style came out not only in composition but also in performance: Mr. Taylor’s elastic phrasing in “Your Smiling Face” and “Sweet Baby James”; Ms. King’s stretched vowels, sung with her head back. Music Review: Carole King and James Taylor at the Garden 2010-06-16T22:06:00Z They've been nominated for 14 Baftas and 11 Oscars, including best picture, best director, best supporting actor and actress, best screenplay, best editing, plummiest consonants, loveliest vowels and best medicinal use of swearing. Pass notes No 2,912: The King's Speech 2011-01-18T20:00:01Z Arabic writing does not include most vowels, and he’s transliterating the language in his head. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z She politely mutes the vowel, but the worries became so loud that she ended up getting counselling to deal with them. Danielle Brooks: ‘I want to play a superhero’ 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z All the hooks in the song were worked up to their finished state, but most of the verses were unfinished, often mere vowel sounds. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z They are not concerned with forwarding the action so much as bringing aural pleasure, and indeed Lewis’s satire of a preacherly stemwinder, with drawn out vowels and pounced-on syncopations, is more than halfway to song. Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z And what a satisfying contrast that is to the work of Atlanta’s other current rap maestros, Young Thug and Future, two expressionists who twist and stretch their vowels in the name of drama. Migos-mania: How the Atlanta rap trio mastered the sound of silence 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Before 1875, vowels before nasal sounds like "m" and "n" in words such as "pin" and "pen" were pronounced differently. Do accents disappear? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z They often produce phonemes — units of sound — not found in any known language: complex vowels, consonants and clicks. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z If Stanwyck resisted camp, it’s because she retained a core of authenticity as unshakable and unmistakable as the Brooklyn vowels that colored her speech. DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z The blaccent is mostly about the coloring of a few vowels – the “a” in cat and the “o” in hot. 2015 in language: “We can get up in each other’s faces so easily” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z At times, his theatrical manner — the perpetually raised eyebrow, a stentorian speaking style with well-rounded vowels — was parodied on British television. Donald Sinden dies; multifaceted British actor of movies, TV and stage They never actually heard how the Southerner produced this vowel, since none of the clues contained the "I" vowel. What makes us subconsciously mimic the accents of others in conversation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Its Italian incarnation sounds softer, less strident, but the vowel sounds have wisely been retained for the chorus. Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z The secret to producing that sound lies in great part to careful attention to vowel shapes, which is where the “whole moldy cheese business” comes into play. The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Working with a group that includes boys whose first language is not English — the school recruits internationally, and from across the country — Mr. Hyde said he sought creative ways to work on vowel shapes. The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The rich, round vowels are full of money. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z Billings’s texts are condensed to mere sound colors with vowels almost entirely untethered from consonants. Review: Ekmeles Performs John Cage at the Avant Music Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z This differs from the way these words are pronounced in a so-called General American accent, in which a speaker glides through two different vowel sounds, resulting in something like "aight" in "right." TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Feeling emerged from details: In a rapt version of Donizetti’s song “L’amor funesto,” the final vowel of the first stanza flowed stylishly into the start of the second. Pretty Yende’s New York Recital Debut 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z When Gucci Mane finds a vowel sound he loves, get out of the way. The Playlist: New Songs From Prince and Garth Brooks, if You Can Find Them 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z But the following months, as Lincoln civilly discussed himself into the Oval Office, need all of Spacey’s insinuating vowels to make it seem slimy. CNN’s “Race for the White House”: The campy history of cutthroat campaigns that 2016 deserves 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Sometimes the result had only one different vowel; other times the new version looked nothing like the old. Style Invitational: Think up a game crazier than this one 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z She phrases intuitively, waiting on a word and then drawing it out, and turns good lyrics to oatmeal, adding strange new colors to vowels, making whole syllables vanish. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z Ms. Winslet said she had to change the way the muscles in her face moved — often in freezing weather — in order to emulate Philly’s mid-Atlantic dialect, with its selectively elongated vowels and smushed consonants. Kate Winslet Has No Filter 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z By getting three or four vowels out there from the jump, one can quickly narrow down the list of possible solutions. When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z When the waitress comes, each man’s voice smoothens, vowels lengthening. Beyond black and white 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Even forceful phrases did not cut off abruptly; consonants and vowels alike felt rounded and full. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z There are no vowels, Jessie J believes, that cannot be improved by being stretched like chewing gum and injected with hot air. Jessie J; Jonny ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:56Z The vowel sounds a little bit different, but it’ll be fine.’ Kate Winslet Has No Filter 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z I would guess it's like the "o" in "rainbow," but I've heard "bow" like the English verb, and the etymology would suggest yet another vowel:. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z But sometimes he’ll hold a note for an unexpectedly long time, a cappella, until a love song becomes a meditative chant, or he’ll move his mouth around a protracted sound to create vowel overtones. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-16T19:58:50Z Gravelly and majestic, with rounded vowels honed by elocution lessons in a rough-and-tumble boys’ home, it assured him an audience even over the scrum of the Australian prisons where he spent much of his life. Jack Charles, Grandfather of Aboriginal Theater, Dies at 79 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z He made me sing sequences of vowels, which changed the interior shape of the mouth: EUEAEO. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z They pointed the way in a bracing chorus of Long Island vowels. In Iceland, a geothermal soak is the ultimate cure-all 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z “Oh, sure, there are NO words that contain all the vowels in order,” she said facetiously. Style Invitational Week 1081: It’s the stupidity, stupid — be a dumb-ask Because stop sounds, along with vowels, are the earliest and most frequent sounds babies tend to babble – which means "pa," "ta," "ba" and "da" are all early infant vocalizations. From "dada" to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z But not everyone is convinced that vowels are the way to go. When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Her accent sounds faintly British at moments — she worked in London for 14 years — but then the twangy vowels of her Southern childhood re-assert themselves. Carmen Cusack, star of Edie Brickell and Steve Martin’s 'Bright Star,' finds her place in L.A. 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z We accept that strangely ballooned vowels that the dialogue offers up are not altogether accurate to its North Dakota/Minnesota setting. In “Fargo,” the fight for truth and justice is a woman’s game 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z "They were Kentucky guys with beautiful, perfect-pitch harmonies and great diction. All those vowels and consonants, those s's and t's, every one of them killed me," he said. Phil Everly of rock's Everly Brothers dies at 74: L.A. Times 2014-01-04T15:37:58Z "I learned a lot from them and their relationships with the orchestra," said Bringuier, his French accent allowing a bit of air to his vowels. Lionel Bringuier kicks off Hollywood Bowl season with L.A. Phil 'family' 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z He dropped a vowel from his legal name, Callias, when he took to the stage. Comedian Charlie Callas dead in Las Vegas at 83 2011-01-28T18:09:28Z Fewer Russian characters would squeeze their palates, and fewer Irish characters would hyperextend their vowels. How Should Black People Sound? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z One of the main things our vocal coach wanted to push, at least for me, was opening up the vowels more. Moses Ingram Knows You Wanted More of Her in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z I begin by pronouncing words with vowels of the long and short variety, then diphthongs, before moving on to consonants, including plosives and fricatives. The rise of ‘accent softening’: why more and more people are changing their voices 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z So, I thought it would be spelled with a lot of consonants, and not many vowels. Carson Kressley shares 3 gift-wrapping hacks anyone can master 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z She speaks in needles: the consonants pierce, the vowels sting. Review | ‘Nina Simone’ raises a fist at Arena Stage 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z But the power of her evocation isn’t a matter of impersonation: it’s her willingness to imbue a phrase or single word with drawling significance, distending a vowel here, coarsening texture there. Music: A Style Lasting Beyond a Lifetime 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z One of her comic tricks is to elongate her vowels, tickling them until they laugh. 'SNL' alum Kristen Wiig walks 'Bridesmaids' down the aisle 2011-05-13T21:33:48Z The crowd responded with its loudest cheer of the night — all vowels. Review | Migos will not be measured by their rhymes. They’ll be measured by their consonants. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Trainor’s dropped G’s are a put-on, in the same way white rapper Iggy Azalea turns her Australian vowels sideways when she steps into a recording booth. Meghan Trainor powers through illness, relies on doo-wop at Fillmore 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z They eventually named their institute for an online trend that had slime enthusiasts replacing the vowels in their name with double o’s, so Kira would become “Kooroo” and slime becomes “Sloomoo.” Slime is everywhere. It’s everywhere. Slime is everywhere. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z OK, his famously elongated transatlantic vowels haven't yet metamorphosed into a Johnny Rotten sneer, but is playing guitar in a punk band any way for a 59-year-old with an OBE to behave? Loyd Grossman kicks out the jams 2010-03-31T21:00:00Z “Are we being used if we’re a muse?” she hams, dragging out the vowels. Charlotte Rampling: ‘I’ve got a very restless character. It’s a beast’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s the voice of a hipster chronically ditching school, and then growing up to belt survival anthems with one-of-a-kind “a” and “o” vowel slurs. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z But vowels, up until now, have not been actually without value. Where Have All the Vowels Gone? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Imitation is key to how this Eliza learns; it is not through Higgins’s drumming vowels into her ear but through observation and mimicry of people who are kind to her. Review: ‘My Fair Lady,’ Illuminated With New Stars 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The endlessly dappled world of “Life,” Perec’s longest and most intricate novel, was arrived at via constraints more baroque than simply dropping a vowel. The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z “Of course, if you’re asked to resign from a film you’re doing because of something that is merely a bunch of vowels and consonants floating in the air, yeah, you feel boycotted,” Depp said. Johnny Depp at Cannes: ‘I Don’t Have Much Further Need for Hollywood’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Those Mitteleuropean vowels doubled as Russian for audiences trained to see Soviets as drones. Rambo and the Terminator: the cold war warriors are back 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z It doesn't always apply to words that start with "n" with a second-letter vowel. What the heck is a "napron"? The linguistic history of the kitchen's most stylish accessory 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z “We talked a lot about cheese the other day. Lift your cheekbones, and let’s try to have even more of those smelly-cheese ‘e’ vowels.” The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Now it is wholly Spanish, Italian and the tight, taut vowels of Scandinavia. The Art of Summer: Summer?s Over; the Game Begins 2011-09-07T22:27:57Z Now the only sound coming from the speakers is Trump’s voice, a shouty call-and-response instrument that consistently turns vowels into little snarls. Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores. Samuel D. Hunter’s Own Private Idaho 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z His accent is fabulous, slithery and full of words that fade into vowels. Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z Having grown up in Essex, he first fell for Bragg's love songs, and felt their impact all the more because of the author's familiar vowel sounds. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z There is no evidence that Hammerstein’s words are anything to her but vowels. Review: ‘Sincerely, Oscar’ Is Some Embarrassing Evening 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z West's Higgins, all sleek and pampered assuredness, seems a trifle two-dimensional at first, but he transforms alongside Eliza: just as he remoulds her vowels, she is imperceptibly working on him. My Fair Lady – review 2012-12-19T13:14:23Z In an interlude that added some levity, she proposed the addition of a new vowel to the English language, so as to prevent the mispronunciation of words like “namaste.” La MaMa Moves! Remains a Freewheeling Home for Dance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z For how is it that a toddler so quickly and effortlessly puts those fancy new vowel sounds together into meaningful, grammatically correct sentences? Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z While her French vowels were distinctive and accurate, too many consonants were unintelligible, particularly at either end of her range. At the Phillips Collection, soprano Abigail Mitchell has room to grow 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z “Once during ‘Angel’ I told Tony Perkins that Federico Fellini was out front, and he spent three hours painstakingly enunciating every vowel so that Mr. Fellini would be able to understand him. Rosemary Murphy, 89, Emmy Winner, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z His rumbling vibrations wrapped themselves up in the vowel sounds of Mr. Graves’s drums. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Pranks were rolled out across its myriad services, including a "vowel outage" on Gmail and a version of Google Translate for animals. Web gets April Fools' makeover of goofy hoaxes 2010-04-01T17:11:00Z “We talked a lot about ‘cheese,’ where that ‘e’ is pitched, where you put the vowel,” he said. The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z His jaws reflexively clench, his tongue is too tense to let vowels flow. In ‘Beginners,’ a Writer Takes Up Chess and Surfing and Singing and Juggling and … 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Hunter may seem to steal scenes as the relentlessly performative Baldwin, practically singing his vowels and making dramatic faces, but Johnson’s Wright has a coiled presence that commands attention. Review | Jay-Z and Kanye set the tone in premiere of ‘Les Deux Noirs’ at Mosaic Theater 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z He still has a Midwestern accent of flat, drawn-out vowels. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z As you will discover, should you chose to read on, vowels are meaningless in music these days. Paramore, MDNGHT, RDGLDGRN: this week's new tracks 2013-05-17T12:00:00Z Eno sings slow, chantlike phrases, and his lyrics favor open vowels rather than crisp consonants. On ‘ForeverAndEverNoMore,’ Brian Eno Sings for the End of the World 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z In fact, contestants have to pay for them out of their bankroll, punishment for making the viewers at home briefly think about stupid, common vowels. Where Have All the Vowels Gone? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z There were a few too many arched eyebrows, a few too many heavily stressed vowels; the programme was interesting enough without all that. TV review: Domesday, Madness In The Fast Lane and Help! My House Is Falling Down 2010-08-11T06:30:00Z Her smile was wide and her vowels were stretched. Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper, sorting through family hurt and history 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Then there's the voice: as we talk, his Swiss vowels mingle with excited saliva as his best sentences build to an excitable conclusion. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z Eventually, they lost their "n" and whatever the second letter was — which in 99% of cases was a vowel — became the first. What the heck is a "napron"? The linguistic history of the kitchen's most stylish accessory 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z He explained that the easiest vocalizations for a human to make are open-mouth vowel sounds. Why all babies say “mama” 2013-05-13T16:16:00Z Harmonic surprises are exceedingly rare, as the gently cantering train of vowels and consonants runs on into the distance. Pushing Things Forward in Choral Music 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Standard American is a little more monotonous, and the way you guys pronounce your vowels slightly differently, it’s just a harder accent. Q&A: The Brass Teapot‘s Juno Temple Talks Indie Movies and Black Magic 2013-04-05T15:36:30Z Of the well-known, Mazar’s video was the most casually controlled — seconds in, she apologized for her “dog chewing on a bone” though what you really heard was “awww ooh oahhh,” just pure vowel massage. How Does a New Yawker Tawk? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z While checking in with his mother in Georgia he’d drift into a black southern lilt, subtly prolonging vowel sounds as he reverted to his childhood timbre. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Like the guileful letter Y itself, men are asked to represent consonants and then vowels. Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z So she invokes the only Czech sentence with no vowels. Books of The Times: A Smart-Aleck Girl With a Gimlet-Eyed View 2011-02-23T15:27:12Z On the creating side, you also start thinking about vowels and certain words that speak better. In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’ 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z “The M just passes through the vowel — your lips barely touch each other.” Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z Pippa is Australian, a loopy good-time girl with an Earth-mother streak, and her accent is a wild ocean of exaggerated rolling vowels. Review: Rough Night Exposes the Threadbare Downside of the Women-Cutting-Loose Genre 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z So that means I pay attention to each consonant and each vowel, the way you would if you were writing a play. ‘I Was Skeptical.’ How Sondheim Agreed to Change ‘Company.’ 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z As a vocalist, Morris takes her Nashville inheritance — vowels that curve parallel to a twang; legible, unambiguous lyrics — and sets them to tunes built with acoustic guitars, synthesizers and electronic percussion. Review | Maren Morris has the best voice in country music. She’s still learning how to use it. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z This, Colapinto argues, kept them from producing the more gymnastic vowels and sound combinations that set language apart from utterance. Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Other times, I needed to buy a vowel, so to speak, as his numerical mind left me a little lost. Like in this instance, fighting over where to put the vitamins. How I embrace my son’s language of numbers 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z The service was almost entirely incomprehensible, of course, but the Samoan language, with its glottal stops between vowels and utter lack of double consonants is naturally rhythmic and at times spellbinding. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Auckland, Exploring the South Seas Without Setting Sail 2012-04-10T19:43:38Z Her characters whisper, shout, elongate a vowel or express rhythmic cadence, allowing language to escape the familiar. The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z His strangulated cry mulches phonemes and petulantly drags the last word in a line; sometimes he drifts into flamboyantly slack vowels that seem way more West Coast surfer than East Coast skater. New Music: Career In Motion Discovers A Perch 2011-07-25T21:45:24Z But the language, Mr. Abrahamsen said, is difficult to sing, with “words in the back of the mouth, and the vowels very near each other.” A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s interesting — it’s like these scripts where they take all the vowels out and you can still read it, you can read the text. With 28,000 LEDs, It’s Lights! Lights! Lights! Action! 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z You don’t mind the wayward vowels, however, since all the performers are so funny and affecting. Review: ‘The Herd,’ Rory Kinnear’s Drama About Family Friction 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z She creates a delightfully mannered, almost musical performance, drawing out vowels and spitting out consonants, particularly if they are curses. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z For example, in the song “Black Cow,” Breithaupt discusses the “meticulously matched” vowel sounds of the lyrics’ inside lines. Reading Steely Dan: The lyrical genius that helped define a decade 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Like those that have gone before him, the Pulp singer is the owner of a voice you'd recognise underwater, a deep and warm tenor with vowels as flat as his native Sheffield is hilly. From Pulp to Prokofiev: Jarvis Cocker narrates Peter and the Wolf 2010-12-29T17:57:43Z Headey, who speaks a kind of metropolitan RP spiced up with Yorkshire vowels, cockney glottal stops and Californian grammar, swears liberally and enthusiastically. Lena Headey: ‘I wanted a better death for Cersei’ 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Aslan often says he never wanted to be an academic "who spent his time in a dusty university basement poring over the vowel markings on some ancient Acadian text." In CNN's 'Believer,' Reza Aslan to aim for a window on world religions 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z When she finally gets it with those vowels, her exhausted face lights up with sudden recognition. My Fair Lady; The Dance of Death; Midnight's Pumpkin – review 2012-12-23T00:09:26Z She is a clapping, music-loving joy, and at almost 2 years old, she is also a floppy, willowy creature who cannot make most vowels or consonants and is nowhere near crawling, much less walking. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z Throughout the night, Lo threw her voice into her vowels with brio and control, twirling her free hand through the air as if stroking a unicorn’s mane. Tove Lo sings about sex, drugs and more sex. Why aren’t we scandalized? 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Who knew, for example, that bel canto, an Italian opera term, came to define European classical singing mainly because the open vowels of Italian were easier to sing than French or German? Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Her pronunciation, as usual, is a barely intelligible blend of slither and wah-wah, and you feel blissfully unsure just where the trumpeters end and her own unmuted vowels begin. “Amy,” Back from Black 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z For modern listeners, this sensitivity aids in the perception of consonants, which result from short, high-frequency noise bursts that punctuate the more continuous, lower-frequency pitched components that we perceive as vowels. A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Hayes loves language; he loves the round vowel and crisp consonant. Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Pérotin writes extravagant melismas on single vowels, which function like the luxuriously illuminated capitals of medieval manuscripts, lending majesty to the text and celebrating the artistry of the setting. Review: Pérotin and Lang, 800 Years Apart, at Trinity Church 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z This new recording is thoroughly French, down to the pronunciation of the Latin, with its quirky French “u” and nasal vowels, and the informative booklet essay by Thomas Leconte. CD review: An enlightened new recording of de Lalande 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z More than once, as he pressed on with his own writing, he said colleagues suggested it would be a good marketing decision to change his name to “something with fewer vowels in it.” Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z They often evoke obscure primordial rituals, with vowels and consonants passing around the ensemble in spontaneous-seeming fits and starts. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z On your next breath, using any vowel sound, you’re to sing the tone in your mind. Join a Musical Meditation Bringing Together Hundreds Worldwide 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It happens that these two vowels are the two in “black bodies.” 2015 in language: “We can get up in each other’s faces so easily” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Dressed in a regulation adolescent ensemble of black skinny jeans, stripes, hoodie and a wristful of beads, her cockney vowels spiral around the room, intermittently punctuated by nervous giggles. Ami Metcalf on Walking And Talking like Kathy Burke 2012-06-22T23:01:00Z He’ll open only part of his mouth or sing away from the microphone or cuts vowels short. Music Review: Pivoting From Patter to Poetry 2011-03-03T21:46:39Z She allows certain words if they appear in a direct quotation and often substitutes an asterisk for a vowel. Women’s Magazine Editors Allow More Printed Vulgarities 2013-01-02T00:07:05Z Their language is spare, seemingly etched, and spoken with a formal, even archaic diction that calls attention to the spelling of words that contain usually silent consonants or unvoiced vowels. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z He took pride in his Italian heritage, even if part of that pride came from feeling mistreated because “my name ends with a vowel.” Why Frank Sinatra still matters 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Although James was not quite so expansive in his range or delivery, he was almost as keen to overload every phrase, as though anything less than four different sounds per vowel would bring immediate disqualification. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z Aside the stylish tutor relaying the subtleties of vowel duration, this could be any exchange in any Italian-language classroom. Lessons of "Generation Wealth": In an age of excess, women lose 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z There are guns, animal bones, lovely higgledy-piggledy Kiwi vowels and shopkeepers who scowl menacingly and tell customers they'll be with them in "jest a succund". Top Of The Lake: a mystery that's impossible to get a handle on 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z To honor the computer’s new and condensed language, and the small stage on which this new dance would be performed, he subtracted the vowels from Crowd Spacer to title the work “CRWDSPCR.” When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Eunoia, which means "beautiful thinking" according to Guinness World Records, is the shortest word in the English language that has all five main vowels. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Least likely to: Suffer from irritable vowel syndrome. New band of the day - No 877: oOoOO 2010-09-29T16:13:00Z A slight elongation of the vowel in the final word of the phrase “some foreign place,” unmistakably estranging. Review: ‘Quicksand,’ Robert Ashley’s Enigmatic Spy-Thriller Opera 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z But I still cringed every time my parents tried to get around the English connotations of his nickname by drawing out different vowel sounds: asking after SHAH-dee or how is SHAD-ee doing? Modern Love: The Hardest Lesson to Learn 2011-02-04T18:20:03Z But others are more alarming: people under a large tarp, who “buck and thrash, sometimes with a rolling movement, sometimes in violent jerks,” crying with “a frightened, choked stream of burbling vowels.” In 'Universal Harvester,' John Darnielle walks into cornfields, family and horror 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z He consults a speech therapist, who gives him exercises to reduce his nasality and elongation of vowels. Review: ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ Examines a Manner of Speaking 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z I expected driving on the left and accents that commit untold horrors to American vowel sounds. Frugal Traveler Blog: Notes From a New Zealand Newbie 2012-03-22T18:00:48Z Rimbaud preached "the systematic derangement of all the senses" and he perhaps experienced synaesthesia, the crossover between the senses, or in his case, between vowels and colours. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z In that case – and if you want to win with the fewest guesses – try making sure your first guess has two vowels, with one of them at the end of the word. Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first guess 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z But the word “text” is misleading: most of the time it felt as if Ms. Keusch were trapped in a linguistic purgatory, where the consonants had staged a coup against vowels and taken the reins. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z It was part of Hitchcock's provocative primness that, after this meticulous outrage, he declared with wide eyes and wider vowels that you couldn't actually see a knife-point piercing flesh. Psycho: Anatomy of a scene 2010-10-22T10:54:00Z He sang at very slow tempos, which allowed him to elongate vowels and accent certain words, bringing fresh emotional meaning to oft-heard standards. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 Even when a word is ground down to its smallest particles — its vowels, its “glottal stop,” as Celan put it in his most famous poem — the song remains. In ‘A Sand Book,’ Ariana Reines Finds Ecstasy in Chaos 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z A highly individual singer, Matthews was a bit like a Welsh Björk, capable of doing wonderfully crunchy things with vowels and consonants that made songs such as Road Rage and Mulder and Scully so memorable. Why Cerys Matthews wants to teach the world to sing 2013-06-01T05:59:01Z It's his for the taking, provided he can realign his vowels and prove to a dowager duchess that he is worthy of having a silver spoon stuffed down his throat. Me and My Girl ? review 2010-12-21T21:29:00Z His voice is as piercing as ever, with vowels fired off like tiny firecrackers. The Playlist: Selena Gomez Chides an Ex, and Remy Ma Stomps on a Foe 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z With his shiny hair, radiant teeth and thin mustache — and a surname one vowel short of Valentino — George is a quintessential movie star. | 'The Artist': ?The Artist,? by Michel Hazanavicius - Review 2011-11-24T13:00:00Z Ancient Hebrew text did not include letters for the vowels, so a system was developed for indicating vowels above and below the consonants in Hebrew. The Book of Genesis, part 2: In the beginning 2010-12-20T12:00:00Z And then, ramping up her already clipped vowels to a Penelope Keith level of ridiculous-posh she declares: "You can never be alone with the art of conversation." Mercurial Marling 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Meanwhile, Sophocles's cast has undergone a sea change in the vowels of the American south. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z While he’s often nearly catatonic as Elliot, Mr. Malek in conversation is jocular and excitable, his elongated vowels carrying traces of his Southern California roots. Rami Malek of ‘Mr. Robot’: The Face of Hacktivism 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Murray worked with a voice coach to break down the unusual mix of vowel sounds in Roosevelt's speech. Bill Murray mulls Oscar prospects as Roosevelt 2012-09-13T14:24:08Z It seems poetically right that for reasons you’ll have to discover for yourself, the words “Ulan Bator,” spoken with long vowels by Russ, become the most poignantly loving in the play. Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z “I particularly enjoy making sure it sounds like everybody’s singing the same thing, that the phrasing matches, the vowels match and the diction’s clear,” Kalbfleisch says. Jon Kalbfleisch tunes up ‘A Little Night Music’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z His vowels stretch into gaping, quavering chasms, and practically every time he pronounces the letter R, it seems to throw up a thicket of midnight darkness. Theater Review: ‘Helen & Edgar,’ Edgar Oliver’s Solo Show, at Theater 80 2012-10-12T22:43:25Z The tempo's now set for a slow relishing of vowels and consonants. Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z And, while in person her accent is pure California, on screen in Tolkien, her clipped, turn-of-the-century English consonants and vowels are flawless, as are her more working-class ones for Fantine. Lily Collins: ‘I want to dig deep, tell the truth and be more brave’ 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The recognition parameter they used was the number of vowels in the text. Adaptive optical neural network connects thousands of artificial neurons 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z For instance, Spanish has five vowels, and each one has a distinct sound that remains consistent across all words. People Who Speak Backward Reveal the Brain’s Endless Ability to Play with Language 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z They also seem to recognize when a vowel sound has been swapped out in their name, Mallikarjun says, but they can’t always tell the difference when a consonant sound is switched. Can Dogs Use Language? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z When Ragland ran out of vowels, she texted friends for a quick brainstorm. Swifties are making and trading friendship bracelets. Here's what to know 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Intentional or not, there were more similarities between the masked swashbuckler and the shortstop from Havana besides consonants and vowels. The historic MVP race between Cuban Twins and their unidentical baseball careers 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z You have a beautiful passage about your name, Aomawa, and how the vowel sounds carry their own meaning just by being. Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in the U.S. Here’s One’s Story 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z In contrast, English, considered an “opaque” language, has 12 different sounds for these same five vowels. People Who Speak Backward Reveal the Brain’s Endless Ability to Play with Language 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z “Once you grasp the vowels, you can get your tongue around most of the words — long sounds, short sounds, the macron,” the horizontal line above a vowel that indicates a stressed syllable, he said. Why Every Women’s World Cup City Has Two Names 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z The embarrassing truth is that my trivia knowledge is heavily weighted toward things with four and five letters and a lot of vowels. A Mini Challenge 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z “Consonants are the letters in the alphabet that are not vowels,” one student read aloud. In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z I began receiving e-mails sent from her address consisting of strings of consonants with no vowels at all, like this: A New Therapy for Multiple Personality Disorder Helps a Woman with 12 Selves 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z After 41 seasons and countless requests to buy vowels, Pat Sajak will retire as host of “Wheel of Fortune.” Accenture Makes a $3 Billion Bet on A.I. 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z It was part of a lesson on closed syllables, a term that refers to a vowel being followed by a consonant. This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids’ reading was still behind 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z What is the only seven-letter word to use all five vowels and Q? A Mini Challenge 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z “The vowels are A, E, I, O and U. Consonants are all the other letters.” In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z The schwa — the “uh”-like sound that can be represented by any vowel in the English alphabet — was a stone-cold killer. The Three Other Trump Investigations 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The schwa — the “uh”-like sound that can be represented by any vowel in the English alphabet, also known as the bane of competitive spellers’ existence — knocked out several finalists, as it routinely does. A spell-off that wasn’t, and a gantlet of schwas: Takeaways from the spelling bee. 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z This matters because it creates a short vowel sound, meaning the letter “A” in the word is pronounced as “ah.” This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids’ reading was still behind 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z By late last year, Mr. DeSantis was alternating back and forth on the long and short vowel sounds in his last name. Deh-Santis or Dee-Santis? Even He Has Been Inconsistent 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Strung together, these consonants created words in which vowel sounds were interpreted by the order of the consonants. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z It is the earliest surviving example of a single manuscript containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible with punctuation, vowels and accents. Oldest most complete Hebrew Bible sells for $38m at auction 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z The notes — which detail pronunciation and vowel usages — reinforced the veracity of the most accurate of the key manuscripts, the Aleppo Codex, he said. Secrets of $38 million Hebrew Bible revealed by $700 digital microscope, scholar says 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z If it was a long vowel, it would sound more like the name of the letter. This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids’ reading was still behind 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “When you’re asked to resign from a film you’re doing because of something that is merely a function of vowels and consonants floating in the air, yes, you feel boycotted.” At Cannes Film Festival, Johnny Depp says ‘I have no further need for Hollywood’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Because both words consist of many vowels, they quickly make clear what letters are in the solution word. Information Theory Finds the Best Wordle Starting Words 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z His eyes search a chart that lists vowels, consonant pairs and word endings, but he doesn’t land on an answer. ‘Too much to learn’: Schools race to catch up kids’ reading 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Fields; Theodore Roosevelt, who undermines his Rough Rider persona with a weeny, high voice; and William Howard Taft exhibiting his native Ohio’s warmish “r’s” and open vowels. Perspective | Carter, Bernie, Reagan: Who is the best audiobook narrator? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “We are closing that door. The consonant is stopping that vowel from saying its name.” This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids’ reading was still behind 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “I thought to myself: Wouldn’t it be amazing if there were two words — one in Hindi and one in another language — and they were connected by their vowels?” she said. California's escalating water crisis galvanized composer Reena Esmail's new work 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z It is the earliest surviving example of a single manuscript containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible with punctuation, vowels, and accents. Oldest most complete Hebrew Bible goes on display in Israel before sale 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z He has a broad grin, an easy manner, and - at least in English - the drawn-out vowels of an accent bred in Queen's, New York City. Israel's settlers change West Bank landscape with hilltop outposts 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Unlike Torah scrolls, where the Hebrew letters are devoid of vowels and punctuation, these manuscripts contained extensive annotation instructing readers how to recite the words correctly. Sotheby’s hopes for record sale of ancient Hebrew Bible 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z His song titles often feature extraneous umlauts, and while the accent mark highlights different vowel sounds, Yeat seems obsessed with creating new sounds entirely. Four concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “One can no more easily remove gender from Spanish and other romance languages than one can remove vowels and verbs from English,” she said. Some Republicans want to ban ‘Latinx.’ These Latino Democrats agree 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Order!” in the broad flat vowels of her native Yorkshire when the brass and percussion sections fall into open brawl,” The Times said. Betty Boothroyd, Britain’s First Female House of Commons Speaker, Dies at 93 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Most New Zealanders have some familiarity with Noelle McCarthy’s voice, whose Munster-inflected vowels have floated through its airwaves for much of the last two decades. 5 New(ish) Australasian Books for Your Reading List 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith McPherson, the supervising dialect coach on “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a dialect coach 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Removing that gender, the order contends, would be akin to trying to remove vowels and verbs from the English language. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs executive order banning use of ‘Latinx’ 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z So I came up with a sound chart, so to speak, what the consonants are, what the vowels are. How to speak Na'vi: An interview with the creator of the alien language in "Avatar" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z In an intensive class focused on phonics, ninth graders recently learned about silent vowels and adjacent consonants that make one sound, as in “rabbit.” In Memphis, the Phonics Movement Comes to High School 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z The software can write code when prompted with an everyday description of what it’s supposed to do—for instance counting the vowels in a string of text. AI learns to write computer code in ‘stunning’ advance 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z But trying to imagine the picture without her is like imagining a word without a vowel. Perspective | John Singer Sargent’s enigmatic masterpiece, explained The 'e' vowel though had no diacritical mark, so was largely absent. Charles V: French scientists decode 500-year-old letter 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Psycholinguists distinguish slips by the linguistic units that they involve, such as consonants, vowels, words and phrases. Why do people have slips of the tongue? 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Farrell's persona - straight bat, straight face and flat vowels - sticks out in a sporting world of spin and schmooze. 'Game-changer' Farrell focused as another 100 nears 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “When you donate platelets, you lose a little plasma and some red cells,” Colby said, a Long Island accent coloring his vowels despite decades outside New York. This Bellevue man has donated more than 200 gallons of his own blood 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z "When I was a kid, my dad warned us we wouldn't be taken seriously because my vowel sounds were very Brummie," Ms Philips said. MP Jess Phillips praises Brummie accent 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z We pitch our voices high, extend our vowels, and ask short, repetitive questions. Cats react to ‘baby talk’—but only from their owners 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Marber and I were on video, but Stoppard was unseen, his throaty vowels and clipped consonants wafting in, as if over a PA system. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z In each, that high-pitched voice, those clipped precise vowels, that slight hesitation about public speaking that would never quite seem to leave her. Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The moment history stops 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Simple resonant cavities can be made to resonate with the sound of the vowels, for example. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z While acknowledging he might have subconsciously moderated his Brummie vowels over the years to make them more "acceptable", he said speaking "clearly" was far more important than people's accents. MP Jess Phillips praises Brummie accent 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z When two vowels are adjacent, the a in the Greek prefix is usually dropped. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z The song “Chivalry Is Not Dead” features Nai Palm’s voice floating atop the junkyard-sounding production: “We could get lost in our lust,” she sings while listeners get lost in her sultry vowels. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Then there is Ms. Shomer’s innovation of a dozen new Hebrew characters — 11 all-inclusive letters combining masculine and feminine markers and one new vowel sign. He Says, She Says: A Biblical Tongue Meets Gender Politics 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z For instance, people tend to try out many different vowel sounds and combinations when talking to babies, “exploring the vowel space,” as Mr. Moser put it. ‘Parentese’ is Truly a Lingua Franca, Global Study Finds 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z "It shares a lot of vowel sounds with Spanish!" Lord of the Rings: Prequel trailer wows fans as it reveals rare female dwarf 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z “There is no way to create a syllable in Spanish with the ‘x’ or the ‘@’ because they are not vowels,’’ she said. In Argentina’s Capital, a Battle Over Gender-Inclusive Language in Classrooms 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Conservatives also snickered, with some also noting her mispronunciation of “bodegas” as “bogedas” with some very English vowels. Jill Biden ripped for use of ethnic stereotype to relate to Hispanics: ‘We are not tacos’ 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Even their language sets them apart from their neighbors: an invisible barrier of sibilants and elided vowels that always sounds like music to me. Brazil holds a special place in its heart (and its laws) for the caipirinha cocktail and its complex national spirit, cachaça 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “I dropped her off, and when I come back, the guy running it goes, ‘She’s really, really good,’” Lake said, her vowels bowing with a southern twang. The thread of Title IX can be traced through a coach and her mother 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Specific consonants always appeared at the beginning or end of a word if the word contained a certain vowel. Tired Adults May Learn Language like Children Do 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Sometimes my brother and I chanted the string of vowels, hooting the “hu” like owls — bewildering our parents — before dissolving into laughter. Forget About Perfection. Embrace ‘Mamahuhu.’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z "Here, Comer speaks in an affectedly sanded-down version of her own Scouse accent, like Tessa has deliberately smoothed out her vowels in the name of blending in with her posher peers." Prima Facie: Critics praise Jodie Comer in her West End debut 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “Vowel team makes the long vowel sound,” they chimed back, leaving their desks to sit at the back of the room. Fed up with lackluster reading scores, Wenatchee schools turned to science 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Raised on a farm and transformed by city life, Berghoef, whose elongated vowels thread an upper Midwestern accent, at once fits in with the culture of Holland and stands out. As Supreme Court weighs abortion, some Christians challenge what it means to be 'pro-life' 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In a kindergarten class in March, pupils dissected letters, like the “ck” at the end of the word “click,” reciting a rule in unison: “use only after a single, short vowel.” A College Fights ‘Leftist Academics’ by Expanding Into Charter Schools 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z But there were all kinds of complex elements squeezed in between every vowel and consonant in that declaration by incoming Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday in a ceremony on the White House South Lawn. Opinion | Judge Jackson’s long journey to the court — and ours 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Before the game, a fan shown on the video board simply yelled, “Kyrie,” stretching out the final vowel. Kyrie Irving Makes His Brooklyn Return 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z “Vowel team” refers to the way vowels are exaggerated when they are next to each other in a word, such as “seed,” or “good.” Fed up with lackluster reading scores, Wenatchee schools turned to science 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Asked several times about the similarities between the "Oh Why" and "Oh I" hooks, Sheeran repeatedly told the High Court in London: "They're both pentatonic scales and they both use vowels." Ed Sheeran sings in court at 'Shape of You' copyright trial 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Our daughter loved pushing the different language buttons on the talking pirates, as well as typing vowels into a reproduction Morse key to signal model Royal Navy boats. On the English coast, Hastings’ attractions span centuries 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z People speak differently, her son picking up so-called “Multicultural London English” rather than the “Cockney vowels and glottal stops” of her father’s generation. Review: For expats during COVID, what does home even mean? A new memoir sheds light 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z For many, these involve a certain kind of logic - using common vowels or consonants, for example - while others keep spreadsheets to track previously used words. What next for Wordle and its fans? 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z “In Spanish, there are five vowel sounds. They come to English and all of a sudden there’s 18 vowel sounds,” said Heinz. Fed up with lackluster reading scores, Wenatchee schools turned to science 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Sjón stopped to pet it, and as he did so, he poured out a soft stream of affectionate Icelandic — vowels stretching and plunging and leaping, R’s rolling like creekwater over stones. Into the Belly of the Whale With Sjón 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Stokes sweetly croons, “And I, I think I love you / and I think that I loved you the whole time,” stretching out vowels but not giving a hint of sappiness. 3 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z He used a form known as Gurney and it influenced the naming of some of his most famous characters because removing vowels is an important part of it. Appeal for help to decode mystery Dickens texts 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z That arrangement of three consonants and one vowel has power. Perspective | Snow has character: Understanding it will help you better navigate winter 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Credit Handel’s vibrant melody, but also the almost mystical power of that combination of vowels and consonants. Hallelujah! The remarkable story behind this joyful word 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z For the freshman choir, she even had to use emojis to show them how to form vowels for singing since masks hid everyone’s faces. New York City Needs to Sing (While It Can) 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “It’s a great night to be a Tii-ger,” Kelly continued, saying every last bit of his vowels. Perspective | Brian Kelly’s in love again. And this time it’s for real. 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z The new arrangement was to have been performed without instrumental accompaniment by a choir who would have vocalised the tune, a style of singing often using vowel sounds but not full words. The Snowman: BBC pulls Christmas radio special after composer's complaint 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z It later became Build Back Better, more commonly referred to as BBB, an acronym with the unfortunate feature of lacking a vowel that allows for pronunciation. Biden has underestimated problems facing the country — and Democrats fear that has become a political problem 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z As a side note, the Russians add an extra vowel sound to their hallelujah and drop the “H” so it is pronounced Ah-lay-lu-ee-yah. Hallelujah! The remarkable story behind this joyful word 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z She sang of love and loss — the consonants lifting and embracing drifting vowels — in ways I’d never heard in English. How the music of Filipino youth continues to rock 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The Moroccan colloquial Arabic, for instance, includes French and Berber words, and is spoken with short vowels. Facebook’s language gaps weaken screening of hate, terrorism 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z I had watched those buildings go up as a kid in the 1970s, when I was a public schooler with a wad of Bazooka and hard little vowels in my foul little mouth. Perspective | Beneath 9/11’s terrible smoke, a flash of gold 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Markov thought of the poem, for the sake of math, as a string of consonants and vowels, which he laboriously cataloged by hand. A Random Walk through the English Language 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z “It has all these long vowels, and all the consonants are liquid as well. It feels like this beautiful flowing stream of sound.” Hallelujah! The remarkable story behind this joyful word 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z “Then I realized when I’m trying to teach vowels they can’t see my mouth.” They’re vaccinated and keeping their masks on, maybe forever 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Hegarty says a key to doing any accent convincingly is not only grasping its distinctive vowel sounds but also being conscious of how they shift depending on where they land in a word or phrase. How Kate Winslet nailed the accent TV fans can't stop talking about 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Everything happening in the classroom — the slow, deliberate reading, the one-on-one work, the oversized vowels on posters at the front of the room — was meant to set a foundation for strong reading. In California, a million English learners are at risk of intractable education loss 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z “The use of consonants distinguishes human language from mammalian communication, which is almost completely vowels,” Dr. Quam said. Neanderthals Listened to the World Much Like Us 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z By contrast, chimpanzees and many mammals tend to produce vowels in order to communicate. Neandertals Probably Perceived Speech Quite Well 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z On his 2019 hit “Dior,” he seeks out open-ended vowel sounds, like the long “o” in the title word, stressing the syllable to showcase the low rumble of his voice. The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “Gucci’s pronunciation follows a very particular cadence — he uses a much greater variety of vowel sounds, for instance, than your average TTS reader would,” says Greenberg. Project Gucciberg offers classic audiobooks read by an AI deepfake of Gucci Mane 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z “His classes became a kind of awakening for Mexican Americans. His students understood that it was more than letters and vowels but a gateway into another world where the sacred permeated everything.” David Vazquez, Aztec-language teacher who worked to save ancestors' history, dies 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Drag a blob up or down, and you’ll change what pitch they sing in; drag them from side to side, and you’ll change the vowel sound. Let the dulcet tones of Google’s Blob Opera ring in the holiday season with machine learning 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Next door, Ms. Raptosh wrote four “Gratitude Sonnets,” praying that the “vowels within Idaho” can “slipper us into some new, non-tribal unities.” Verses vs. Virus: What These Poets Laureate Are Thankful For 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z By spring 2019, after intensive therapy, he was speaking again: first vowel sounds, then simple phrases, like “I love you” and “thank you”, and later full sentences. 'Is anybody in there?' Life on the inside as a locked-in patient 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z I vividly recall how on the first day of school, when teachers reached me on the roll call, they hesitated at the jumble of consonants and vowels. Opinion | Why I feel insulted when Trump mispronounces Kamala Harris’s name 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z “The only thing they taught me,” she said, “was vowels and the alphabet.” U.S. detained migrant children for far longer than previously known 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z He misses school: “I learned the vowels, the teacher taught, we copied and then I went to the mine,” he says. Pandemic driving children back to work, jeopardizing gains 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The collective’s overt nostalgia for unfashionable Eurodance was often taken as ironic, while the combination of estuary vowels and bedroom-producer amateurism smacked of pastiche. AG Cook: the nutty producer behind the decade's most divisive music 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z At the same time, white suburban residents who have preserved something closer to a Yat accent have started picking up their R’s and pronouncing “about” with a somewhat Canadian rounded vowel sound. 15 years after Katrina, does New Orleans sound different? 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z I am Russian and recognized this accent from the first vowel. L.A. Affairs: It was the world's most unromantic proposal 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Another paper, published in January by researchers from the University of California, Davis, found the vowel sound “e” in “need” produces more droplets than the “a” in “saw,” or “o” in “mood.” Talking Can Generate Coronavirus Droplets That Linger Up to 14 Minutes 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z It's not necessarily the actual words I'm saying, but sometimes the vowel sounds contribute to the hookiness of the melody. Charli XCX on her lockdown album: 'Why didn't I do this before?' 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z “I think that’s why I write about death,” she says, her gorgeous accent kneading every vowel, “because it’s so hard to deal with.” Lucinda Williams: 'I don't mind pushing people's buttons' 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Users were asked to cough, record vowel sounds and recite the alphabet, as well as provide details about themselves. Covid-19 detecting apps run into privacy issues 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The vocal-recognition computer program struggles with words that begin or end with a vowel. SC cadets build robot hands to teach American Sign Language 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z These patterns are likely to be related to repeated features of speech such as vowels, consonants or commands to parts of the mouth. Machine translates brainwaves into sentences 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Tiles connect when the character on them matches an adjacent tile in one of two ways: either they have the same starting consonant sound or the same vowel sound. Kana Quest is a great puzzle game that just so happens to also teach you Japanese 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z “It is always over a vowel; it is never over a consonant,” Webber said. Ay no! Accent mark in official Santa Fe seal in wrong spot 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Bespectacled, bearded and with a tendency to emphasize his well-rounded vowels, Mr. Lipton came across as cerebral, if sometimes sycophantic. James Lipton, host of ‘Inside the Actors Studio,’ dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z About halfway through the game, she was given a 17-letter puzzle to solve, which she correctly did after finding zero vowels and just two consonants. 'Wheel of Fortune' host Pat Sajak shocked by contestant's impressive, nearly blind puzzle solve 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z “To produce other vowels would require changes to the shape of the vocal tract,” Howard said. A 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy speaks again, with some high-tech help 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z “That’s one reason you wouldn’t want to name your dogs ‘Tom’ and “Bob,’ where the vowels are the same and the consonants different.” Perspective | Babies are bad at listening in noisy places. Dogs aren’t. My pets took part in a study to learn why. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z In 2013 David Howard, an electronic engineer now at Royal Holloway, University of London, was demonstrating one such model—a “vocal tract organ” that plays vowel sounds through a 3-D-printed replica of a larynx. 3-D Printing Gives Voice to a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In a paper published Thursday by the journal Scientific Reports, the authors say the technique allowed them to produce a single sound - somewhere between the vowels in ‘bed’ and ‘bad.’ Ancient voice: Scientists recreate sound of Egyptian mummy 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In a paper published Thursday by the journal Scientific Reports, the authors say the technique allowed them to produce a single sound – somewhere between the vowels in ‘bed’ and ‘bad.’ Ancient voice: Scientists recreate sound of Egyptian mummy 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z By using the vocal tract with an artificial larynx sound, they synthesised a vowel sound meant to be similar to the voice of Nesyamun. Voice of 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy heard again 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Their preliminary results suggest that “dogs can tell the difference between words that differ only with a vowel, but not when you change a consonant,” Newman says. Perspective | Babies are bad at listening in noisy places. Dogs aren’t. My pets took part in a study to learn why. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z When this burst of sound moved through the 3-D-printed vocal tract, it produced a vowel that falls between the “e” in “bed” and the “a” in “bad.” 3-D Printing Gives Voice to a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z O’Hara plays with the music of her lines, turning “vigilante” and “vandalization” over in her mouth, putting a hint of air between the syllables, stretching some out like taffy, pushing vowels into new shapes. The last days of 'Schitt's Creek' will absolutely wreck you 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z “Maybe there’s a typo in the name, or a number instead of a letter, or a vowel missing here or there.” Online fraud: 5 ways to protect yourself as you shop 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z But on the other side of the country, on the Democratic debate stage in Los Angeles, the candidates circled around a different vowel, and a different word — the E word. Who’s Best to Beat Trump? 7 Answers When 7 Democrats Debate 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The first half of his narration is accompanied by the deepest male choir yet heard in the saga, chanting a single low B on naked vowel sounds, in the style of Tibetan Gyuto monks. Perspective | How John Williams’s Star Wars score pulls us to the dark side 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Furthermore, a living person actively modifies the vocal tract to form any specific vowel; Nesyamun’s experimental sound emerged when his throat was at rest. 3-D Printing Gives Voice to a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z With his Yorkshire vowels, he came to power promising a break with the old establishment. Was the PM suspected of being a Soviet spy? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z “An old man named Leo. And an orphan whose name was all vowels.” “Old Hope” 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z I liked Oaxaca as soon as I learned to say its name, all those airy vowels, each subsequent “a” a little fuller in my mouth. City Malaise, Cured by a Cloud Forest? 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z He has a creative flourish with vowel harmony in “Lovin’ On You,” stringing together similar sounding words in a syncopated style that’s a little like rapping, but slower. Review: No sophomore slump for country singer Luke Combs 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Aalto agrees, noting that the sound of Nesyamun’s vowel provides another perspective on his remains. 3-D Printing Gives Voice to a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Before the Kings took on the Jazz, were the vocal fans inside the Golden 1 Center stretching out the first vowel in Walton’s first name — the “Luuuuuke” that’s followed him since he was player? Column: New doubts cast on coach Luke Walton after Kings' slow start 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z “If the following noun begins with a vowel, the article ‘a’ takes an ‘n’ ” is another. Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Before those waves, here came Cole Kmet, a tight end poor in vowels but rich in talent. Georgia holds on to beat Notre Dame, 23-17 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z The evening’s final susurrating vocalist was Zola Jesus, her words strung out as extended, aching vowels, spiked by the euphoric minimalist backing of a string quartet. Review: At Descanso Gardens, music meets nature and 'Silence' means many things 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z What defeats Hughes is not her short game so much as the fade of her long and lofted vowels. “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” Is at Cate Blanchett’s Command 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z “I think all of us are called, as Christians, to do what’s right,” Gillibrand says, starting slow, the vowels long and holy. Why you’re ignoring Kirsten Gillibrand 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z “Dogs are just responding to the vowels and sounds we make.” Animals at some Texas shelters respond to various languages 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z If only the results were half as elegantly stupid as that title, a portmanteau of two words joined intuitively by a shared vowel. Review: 'Stuber' is a sloppy action-comedy that never surges to life 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z What is the vowel sound in the first syllable? Students with dyslexia struggle in Washington. Will a fresh approach to reading instruction be enough? 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z His vowels have been hammered flat by years in Australia and he is not as affably eager to please. Are you really the ‘real’ you? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z I said, “Aretha, German is no joke. Italian, you have the open vowels.” Aretha: Her story was in her songs 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z “Spin the Wheel,” but don’t even think about buying a vowel, in this new high-stakes trivia challenge hosted by Dax Shepard. What’s on TV, June 16 - 22: ‘Yellowstone,’ ‘Ambitions,’ ‘Euphoria’ and more 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Another favorite is “cwm,” a word without vowels that describes a geological formation. ‘It’s honestly amazing’: Foiled by ‘knoll,’ a 7-year-old looks ahead to next year’s Spelling Bee 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Sometimes a schwa can show up where vowels fear to tread: Think of the second syllable of the word "rhythm." Correction: Spelling Bee story 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z It sounds like "Uh," and any vowel can make the sound. At the spelling bee, the most common sound is the toughest 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z It sounds like “Uh,” and any vowel can make the sound. At the spelling bee, the most common sound is the toughest 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z He has a heavy Scouse accent: his consonants are breathy, and his vowels are long and inquisitive. The Undercover Fascist 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “I wasn’t feeling great today, so an extra session in the gym is the way to get through it,” he says, a towel draped around his neck, his gentle Belgian accent blending with Manc vowels. At home with Vincent Kompany: 'Setbacks, racism – everything fed my fire' 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z In Romance languages like French and Spanish, vowels are predictable. Correction: Spelling Bee story 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Pure and perfectly pitched, informal and intimate, with every consonant and vowel present and accounted for, her voice was a great instrument of communication. Doris Day, a life in 10 songs 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z “I was so into how my music was going to sound I just wanted one word with a vowel sound. Whatever the word was it didn’t make a difference!” Burt Bacharach: 'Trump is dangerous – my songs are a form of resistance' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z He erodes consonants, turns simple vowels into unpredictable diphthongs, and takes each new sentence as an opportunity for rococo improvisation. Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life Into Comedy 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z She no longer owned consonants, only soft vowels. “Brawler” 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Sylvie Lamontagne, a 16-year-old two-time finalist who is coaching five spellers in this year's bee, said she advises her students to start with the language of origin as they assess which vowel is most likely. Correction: Spelling Bee story 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z |
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