| 单词 | consonant |
| 例句 | “The consonants would be horizontal then? And they would combine like this?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then, from somewhere deep inside the earpiece, a stream of consonants issues forth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 I knew he could: the rapport was there, or as the experts have it, the phases were consonant, and of course he had as yet no idea of how to raise the barrier voluntarily. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Jakob Grimm was one of the foremost philologists, I studied his ‘Grimm’s Law’ in prison—all about consonants. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were too young, with their soft, slippery little-kid tongues, lacking the hard consonants they needed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The old man showed an early knack for consonants. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew she was wrong when there were five consonants in a row. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Syllabic” Linear B had many logograms, and “logographic” Egyptian hieroglyphs included many syllabic signs as well as a virtual alphabet of individual letters for each consonant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "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 “Nor are Duncan and Donalbain, who also share an initial and, for that matter, concluding, consonant, the same person.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z 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 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 It was a not unbewitching sound, a mix of flute and bassoon, my consonants slightly slurred, a rush and breathiness to most of my pronouncements. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Annabelle started counting things then—ceiling tiles, sidewalk squares, and consonants in words. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Jake steps in, using the same lie I gave him; he speaks faster than usual, his consonants not as crisp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Macbeth and Malcolm are not the same person, though their names share an initial consonant,” she said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I breathed like I read, slowly, sounding out each word, tasting the vowels, chewing on the consonants. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Restricting signs to those for single consonants was only the first of three crucial innovations that distinguished alphabets from other writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why are some note combinations consonant and some dissonant? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Nathan felt the hard, short consonants and the long, lyric vowels weave together. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He turned red, thinking of his trouble with long a’s, th’s, l’s, consonants at the ends of words. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The soft consonants suggested an unthinkable obscenity, the sibilant ending whispered the family’s shame. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I noted a deliberate change in his accent—the softened hiss of the consonants in his words, the dental chh of West Bengali softening into the sibilant ss of the East. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z 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 I know it’s hard to pronounce, foreign, unlovely to those who don’t understand—a peculiar jumble of unmatched consonants. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly all my words come out at Shelby in hard consonants. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z But what if the h sounds like a vowel or the u sounds like a consonant? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The other troublesome word was “here,” no strong consonant to hang on to, and so flat, when “here” is two mountainous ideographs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In Farsi you couldn’t start a word with two consonants. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z When you study the science of philology, you learn the laws governing how a consonant can lose its shape, but it keeps its identity from language to language.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Those languages are famously unique in the whole world in their use of clicks as consonants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Notes that sound good together when played at the same time are called consonant. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Furrowing her brow, she fought for the right sounds, willing her tongue and teeth to work—the whispered consonant, the hiss. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Prolix, quartz, quandary, sylpb, rhythm, all the old tricks with consonants I could dream up or remember. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 An M followed by a vowel, then a consonant, then a vowel, then a consonant. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In simplest terms, the sound waves of consonant notes "fit" together much better than the sound waves of dissonant notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They expected to find that the disintegration yield rose in a curve consonant with increases in the energy of the bombarding deuterons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z 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 Exceptions.—X final, being equivalent to ks, is never doubled; and when the derivative does not retain the accent of the root, the final consonant is not always doubled: as, prefer' + ence = pref'erence. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z They listen to a tape of consonant sounds, and then practice what they hear for ten minutes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “All right,” in all vowels, no consonants. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z We know how confusing we find it when native-born Japanese people speak English without distinguishing / and r: imagine the confusion if our alphabet did the same while similarly homogenizing the other consonants that I mentioned! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 That evolution of the alphabet can be traced back to Egyptian hieroglyphs, which included a complete set of 24 signs for the 24 Egyptian consonants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 He muddles his vowel sounds, drops some consonants and even whole syllables. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z NOTE.—The forms ac-, af-, etc., are euphonic variations of ad-, and follow generally the rule that the final consonant of the prefix assimilates to the initial letter of the root. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z The Australian electronic music producer Flume usually juxtaposes bouncy, consonant chords with a little noise. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z 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 If they are all written in consonants you are probably near the Brecon Beacons. Living Wild by Bear Grylls 2010-05-24T23:05:00Z This gem of text from the Hindu hymns of the Rig Veda — “There was neither nonexistence nor existence then” — rises through unrelated but pleasingly consonant parallel harmonies, familiar from minimalism, but with an earworm catchiness. Review | A giant meditation on creation fills the Kennedy Center Concert Hall 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z And though at first "d" and "p" and "b" might not seem to be all that similar sounding, they are all part of a class of what are called "stop consonants" in linguistics. From "dada" to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z There is plenty of fun, consonant trivia about internet stock trading bulletin boards and chat rooms, as well as from the retail trading boom of the 1990s. Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Nothing lovely about the consonant cluster in that one – it's almost impossible to say. TV Review: Odd One In and Beyond the Pole 2010-07-19T05:45:00Z But the English taste for harmonies in thirds and sixths, consonant to our ears but considered dissonant by medieval theorists, was pervasive. Review | The Folger Consort welcomes Christmas with a messe 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Every sentence is packed with wit, strange but appropriate neologisms, and jostling clusters of consonants that are there for no other reason than sheer delight in language. Railsea by China Miéville – review 2012-05-23T12:00:01Z He's even present in the very consonants of the word. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z So in one sense China’s modern mission is consonant with that of many of its neighbors. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z Seejungfräulein needs a bigger voice and a few more consonants than Anna Kasyan can muster, but she sounds good in it. D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcriptions/D'Albert: Symphony in F major; Seejungfr?ulein 2010-04-08T22:35:00Z 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 Sure, the titanic 82-year-old composer, arranger and pianist writes unorthodox, complicated stuff, but her melodies and harmonies are rich, consonant and exquisite. Jazz legend Carla Bley delivers a night of beauty and magic at the Atlas 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z While I prefer the mirroring double consonants ofLittle Dorrit and the anchoring of the book to the character that is the swivel for most of the action, I can’t discount the appeal of . You can judge a book by its title 2013-04-01T18:27:00Z 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 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 “Everything that I do as a picture book writer is reductive,” Willems said, reflecting on what writing his first libretto taught him, aside from the importance of placing consonants carefully. Mo Willems Finds Yet Another Way to Entertain Kids: Opera 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z He’s fond of nature imagery and pretty, consonant sounds, but his music is changeable and contemplative rather than saccharine. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z 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 He strikes out for Cambridge, acquiring consonants for the front end of his words. Newly Released Books 2011-02-16T22:45:21Z There is, of course, the monosyllabic, Anglo-Saxon bluntness of it, a grunt clamped between consonants. Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z 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 “Morning Glory on the Vine” is warm and tactile in a way that feels consonant with Mitchell’s songwriting. Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The United States of the prince’s imagination is a familiar one, consonant with America’s own dominant narrative about itself: full of possibility, innovation, freedom and adventure. 3 Books That Take Us Inside the Lives of Britain’s Royals 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “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 It’s a reassuring, if temptingly reductive, message, consonant with recent war films that have rejected boo-yah bellicosity for more restrained portraits of military operators as principled, highly skilled professionals. ‘13 Hours,’ Benghazi and the slippery definition of ‘political’ 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z 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 Another that is spelled with a consonant that is pronounced atypically — spelled with an "f" but pronounced like a "v." Carolyn Hax: What’s in a name? A sour taste when it’s pronounced incorrectly. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z But he didn’t consistently blend or tighten up the ensemble in service of a single, consonant vision. Review: ‘The Magic Flute’ Directs Its Whimsy Toward the Younger Set 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Without the ability to do this, making hard consonant sounds – P, D, K and so on – is impossible. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z 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 And when something is made, I compare it back to the reading experience and ask, Is this dissonant with the way I’m reading this, or consonant with it? Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” she said, modulating her voice and hitting her consonants as she did when she wished to sound in control, “but I cannot take that responsibility.” T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z 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 "Red," an action comedy about a group of aging yet very spry former spies, promises the moon: Helen Mirren, every hair and consonant in place, firing a machine gun! 'Red': Casting of spry former spies is on target, even if the movie isn't 2010-10-14T00:53:00Z I can’t pronounce words with lots of consonants, such as “negligible” and “eligibility”. My crash course in aphasia, the debilitating loss of the ability to talk 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z I presume that Mattingly's sense of being was a kind of stasis found in the fragmented, consonant chords at the end. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella Vowels lacerated like bayonets; consonants spat, as if they were spent shells. Reviews: Ian Bostridge, Tenet and Tallis Scholars in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z 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 A couple of soft high notes gave Maltman trouble, and Crowe's habit of dropping consonants got in the way on Debussy's Apparition, which has a text by Mallarmé that ideally we need to hear. Crowe/Maltman/Johnson – review 2013-01-06T18:04:43Z Some might call this gentle, consonant essay little more than pabulum, but it is sincere and well-constructed. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface I was like, “Whoa, this is so consonant, and so beautiful, and so colorful.” At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Pinsky is also a great jokester, a lover of puns, a supreme ironist and a serious carnivore, a lover of the meaty consonants and diphthongs of that Anglo-Teutonic goulash we call English. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z It’s an opportunity to hear a massive crowd crash-land on those consonants all together. Review | Migos will not be measured by their rhymes. They’ll be measured by their consonants. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “You ask somebody how they’re doing now, you better be careful, because they might tell you,” he says, enunciating consonants like a boxer following through on uppercuts. Four Stand-Up Specials That Showcase Hard-Working Comics 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z She has dubbed it "little language" - a form of juvenile wordplay in which consonants in familiar words were replaced. Did Gulliver author use baby language to woo? 2011-01-28T12:09:16Z One of the girlfriends in her life is named Sara, but Whitney gratingly adds nonexistent consonants, referring to her as if she were summoning her to Latin American trench warfare: “Saarragh!” | 'The Real L Word': On Showtime, Gay, Female and Overworked 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z “Sorry, I’ve got it now,” he says, resuming the formal diction – few contractions, quick and clear consonant sounds — that he uses for his rituals. Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z 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 When the orchestra responded and added in new, consonant melody in turn, there was a sense of material developing through collaboration. Two Gems of June: Premieres at Carnegie Hall and Harlem School of the Arts 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Also through consonants: When he says “boardwalk” — a thing he despises, with its “so-called amusements” and “lox and bagel merchants” — the word has three syllables: the board, the wal and the k. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Her words are unfamiliar, a little guttural, the consonants chewy. Dying Languages Cry Out in ‘Last Whispers’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z 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 Add a dash of working-class dialect and slang, including an old man who drops his consonants and uses "cor!" and "coo!" as exclamations. Dean comes by sentiment honestly in 'Old Romantic' 2011-02-16T17:01:05Z A cappella groups almost always take great care that attacks are blended and beginning consonants aligned. A cappella group Magnificat breathes life into sacred music from 16th century Britain This is also interesting as a debate with some musicologists who endeavor to show that consonant tonality is a universally appealing sound. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z By the mid-1940s Mr. Carter had won several prizes but had made little headway with the public, and he began to regard his consonant style as an unrewarding compromise. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z Its ethos was embedded in the street grid, its architecture dovetailing with the art inside, so much of it consonant with the syncopated rhythms and complex geometry of New York. Critic’s Notebook: Defending the Former American Folk Art Museum Building 2013-05-12T20:36:47Z The city is deeply Mayan, from the cuisine — sweet and spicy, heavy on the beans and slow-roasted pork — to the guttural consonants of the Mayan language heard on its streets. Next Stop: Valladolid, Mexico, a City of Yucatán Cool 2012-11-30T20:09:44Z 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 Its bass line is propulsive, urgent sentences that build momentum and volume until they pop with hard consonants. Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z To the ear, even the consonants here have a softness – the mellow M of "Mama" and "melodies", the soft S of "sing", the lulling of the double L, there in "all", and "wells" and "I'll". Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-05-20T21:29:00Z At other times, the words — so important to Bach and so lovingly set — were nearly reduced to the clicks and hisses of consonants. Together, the Sebastians and Tenet Perform Motets 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z “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 Harmonically consonant, often unambiguously melodic and rhythmically effervescent, these half-dozen songs could easily slip into standard repertory. Music Review: John Zorn’s ‘Sacred Voices’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2013-06-24T21:20:40Z The sounds are static, consonant harmonies and long tones and slow tempos. Review: Beach House Releases ‘Depression Cherry’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z 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 And its consonant mood returns in the finale, a meditative gathering of every singer, and nearly every instrumentalist, onstage for music of absolute solace, in a moment redolent of the communal, spiritual climax of “Atlas.” At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z His dislike of "clearly enunciated words" led him to spend "hours going through each sentence of the lyrics getting rid of all the consonants". These New Puritans: 'I didn't know how to record a hawk, and now I do' 2013-05-30T17:57:00Z The four brief sections contain beautiful musical meditations, lavishly consonant and strikingly tuned, on arctic sunlight, moonlight and starlight. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z By then he had jettisoned his first name: The English, he discovered, were flummoxed by the guttural consonant of “Chaim” and pronounced his name “Shame” as often as not. Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on the Screen and the Stage, Dies at 87 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “I always thought it had an Eastern European Yiddish background, so I decided to throw in as many consonants as possible,” he said. ‘Jeuje,’ ‘Zhoosh,’ ‘Zhuzh’: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 In Jason Eckhardt’s “Dithyramb,” from “Tongues,” she explored the timbre and color of individual consonants, which become the rhythmic fuel of the piece. Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z One hint may be in the most ambitious bit he performed on Saturday, one hinging on the peculiarly harsh consonants of a Russian accent, which he described as the most menacing in the world. Trevor Noah, Next ‘Daily Show’ Host,’ Aggressively Sunny in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The contemporary works were mostly in a consonant and meditative style, though in James MacMillan’s clarinet piece “After the Tryst” Sarah Beaty used the music’s multiphonics and bent pitches to create a kaleidoscopic effect. 2010-02-15T22:03:00Z Perhaps of the accent that coated his consonants, a threat to the facile delivery, the r's? Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi – extract 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z "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 “That word has three ‘g’ ’s in it and only three consonants! Running the “Moby-Dick” Marathon 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The three operas varied distinctly with 21st-century musical strategies, triangulating film music, Sondheim and latter-day minimalism’s consonant drive. At the Kennedy Center, WNO’s Opera Initiative unveils a trio of novelties 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z “His sense of excellence is uncompromising, he’s got extraordinary relationships with writers, and the soul of this place is consonant with Tim’s soul.” After 35 Years at Playwrights Horizons, He’s Ready to Seek New Ones 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “When I come on Fallon, it will be like Babe Ruth,” he said, enunciating consonants as if he were angry with them. Andrew Dice Clay Returns, With at Least Two Personalities Showing 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z As they begin to experiment with making other noises, babies will test some of the easier consonant sounds. Why all babies say “mama” 2013-05-13T16:16:00Z But there are a few final consonants of which she makes little. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z 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 From there, Oates catalogs all the things this poem is not: no “sere grasses hiss- / ing like consonants / in a foreign language,” no “metonymic moon / time-traveling for wisdom,” lampoons of bad poetry. Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Their language, which has no consonants, is transcribed throughout the book in a kind of Cyrillic script. Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber The bulk of the program was rhythmically steady and consonant if not completely tonal. Music Review: The Underwood New Music Readings at the Miller Theater 2010-05-24T23:34:00Z 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 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 “L” has to be like the consonant of the decade. Lilith, Lilibet … Lucifer? How Baby Names Went to ‘L’ 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z In Benjamin Curtis’s productions, synthetic sounds hover in lofty, consonant patterns that hark back to 1980s synth-pop, as transparent and imposing as crystal palaces. Playlist: New Work From White Rabbits and Magic Youth 2012-03-11T03:09:07Z 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 He seems to have the most trouble pronouncing consonants: A word such as “war” sounds like “or,” and “like” sounds like “lie.” Pope Francis struggles with English. Here’s how he’ll get his message across in the U.S. 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Hayes loves language; he loves the round vowel and crisp consonant. Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The actors’ voices sounded muffled, with duller consonants, and several performers were forced to regularly nudge their masks — sliding down their chins with every monologue — back into place. In France, Live Theater Calls for Masked Actors and Creative Solutions 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z A decline in references to “God,” “Christian” and “universal” is consonant with the conventional view that the 19th century was a time of rising secularism and skepticism. Analyzing Literature by the Words, but Also the Numbers 2010-12-03T20:30:00Z The gritty consonants of the verb and noun register the painful jolt, but then more anaesthetic is applied. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z The new album presents Hval at her most approachable, with upbeat tunes and consonant sounds, both acoustic and electronic. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Ross was a fake, but his consonants sounded entirely real. Review | Migos will not be measured by their rhymes. They’ll be measured by their consonants. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z I kept a list of my datelines and it is long, with many consonants in unusual places. An American in France Finds Adventures in the Day-to-Day 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Even as she sings about desperation and uncertainty, on “30” Adele’s voice is more supple and purposeful than ever, articulating every consonant and constantly ornamenting her melodies without distracting from them. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z He edited Horace and Terence and restored an elided Greek consonant to manuscripts of epic poetry, thus accounting for previously “puzzling gaps in Homer’s meter.” ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished He found ancient prayers and visions completely consonant with electronic sound. Jonathan Harvey, Modernist Composer, Is Dead at 73 2012-12-07T02:22:20Z “We would have loved to perform at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a community that in many ways is consonant with our own San Francisco Bay Area,” he said in a statement. San Francisco Symphony Cancels North Carolina Concerts, Citing Anti-Gay-Rights Law 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z A placid opening sequence doubled as raw material, the regularly paced, mostly consonant piano chords providing receptacles that Mr. Stone refilled with wobbly, warbling tones and voices to create harmony and counterpoint. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z It seems clear that stopping prisoners voting is perfectly consonant with a basic respect for freedom and democracy. When wrongdoers forfeit human rights 2012-05-26T23:05:57Z 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 Yiddish Jews were one recognized minority group in the ethnic hodgepodge of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, and the only group whose status wasn’t consonant with a piece of land. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z They’re entirely consonant with what people loved about him, or at least people at the time thought they were. Celebrity deaths and the “problematic fave”: Enough with the moral tug-of-war between “hero” and “villain” legacies 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Crystal Castles reached back to the punk-tinged synthesizer riffs and out-of-tune vocals of the 1990s rave era, though it also had more current, consonant tracks. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z 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 For Sheila Michaels, it was, as her glorious New York Times obituary put it Thursday, “two consonants and a period.” Sheila Michaels, champion of “Ms.,” changed the world with “two consonants and a period” 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z 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 Translating the libretto written by Cesare Sterbini for Rossini is a tougher task, primarily because the rhythm of Italian is difficult to replicate in English, with its harsher consonants. Met gives `Barber' a cut in English version 2012-12-28T17:38:08Z 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 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 We are delighted to accept this generous gift from his family and his literary executors: it seems exactly the right place for it, perfectly consonant with so much that we do here. Archives of environmentalist Roger Deakin given to university 2010-05-08T12:55:00Z Returning to a character he has portrayed before, he is seducing audiences with his technical virtuosity, crunching on all those crisp consonants in Hare's talky script while wielding his wiry body like a conductor's baton. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Stop consonants are sounds made with a short but complete obstruction of air flow through the mouth during their articulation. From "dada" to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Yet from within that weird, slippery texture, a set of solid, repeating, consonant chords emerge, bringing the movement to an unusually eerie, slow finale. Classical Recordings: Jefferson Friedman: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3; Remixes 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z "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 The show’s themes seem particularly consonant now in a country whose political atmosphere seems sick at heart. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The British import is chock full of cockney accents, a way of speaking that can be difficult to understand because it tends to soften consonants and blur words together. ‘Matilda’ complaints reflect Kennedy Center’s acoustic issues 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z 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 In a duet consisting of eerily consonant intervals, they tell him the story of the man they loved together, Yukihira, who left their village long ago, promising to return. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z “The thing I love is the consonants are so guttural and aggressive,” he said. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z And even if Andrew Woodall overdoes the biting off of hard consonants as the caustic Nick, he catches the character's defiant egotism. Little Platoons ? review 2011-01-25T18:30:04Z And when she spoke, humor could spring from the most ordinary of consonants. Marian Seldes: Her life and career were a master class 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Padmore’s diction was impeccable, relishing the sounds of consonants without affection. Mark Padmore, Jonathan Biss give intoxicating performance She speaks in needles: the consonants pierce, the vowels sting. Review | ‘Nina Simone’ raises a fist at Arena Stage 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z With his sonorous voice and clipped consonants, Rebney sounds like an old-school anchorman; part of what makes the clip so fascinating is the disparity between his lordly manner and his mounting rage. Fasten your seat belts: Winnebago Man returns 2010-07-08T11:01:00Z And the perfectly consonant harmonies from the chorus are probably a far cry from the call-and-response of the folk original. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z “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 But his softer singing sounded faint and distant, and the consonants, he said, “are nonexisting,” though in the room his diction was excellent. Romancing the Horn: Opera Stars Record Like It’s 1900 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “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 You can’t change the order of the consonants, but you may add spaces or punctuation as above. The Style Invitational: A bug’s laugh — cicada ‘art’ winners 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z I wanted to hear music that felt consonant with how phones and laptops and tablets make us behave like lunatics. The Best Music of 2019 and the Best Music of the Decade 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z 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 I confess I haven't heard of this Smith fellow, but it turns out her Irish consonants were merely rendering the name "Patti" more softly than usual. Saoirse Ronan: 200 years young 2013-05-27T18:00:01Z Carsick Cars, from Beijing, reclaimed a different era: the alternative rock of the late 1980’s and early ’90’s, with the sound of frenetically strummed guitar radiating a nervy, consonant euphoria. Critic?s Notebook: Springsteen Gives Keynote at SXSW Festival 2012-03-18T22:27:10Z Author’s own speech anxiety, resulting in muffed consonants. In ‘It’s All Relative,’ A.J. Jacobs Shakes the Family Tree 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The Basque Museum and Cultural Center has a small but impressive historical exhibition and offers classes in Euskara, the imposing stew of consonants that makes up the Basque language. Cultured Traveler: Herding Sheep in Basque Country (Idaho) 2012-08-24T19:19:51Z Meanwhile Schwitters’s Ur-sounds have inspired vocal writing full of odd gasps, shrieks and consonants that take on a grotesque life of their own. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The Judeo-Christian view, I daresay, is more consonant with reality, in which anything can happen for no understandable reason. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z She’s eternally consonant, bringing melodies that are steeped in hymn, lullaby, waltz, Baroque opera and Celtic tradition, all radiating a free-floating reverence. On ‘Dark Sky Island,’ Enya Doesn’t Stray Far From Continuity and Comfort 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z But then shouldn’t he catch on a particular consonant? Critic’s Notebook: InsightALT, a Festival of Operas in Progress 2013-05-31T21:38:00Z My grandmother dealt with her experience of evil by becoming harder than a Yiddish consonant. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z 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 The violinists played loud, amplified drone chords, mostly consonant but with ear-scraping traces of dissonance, following a slow, regular, graceful pulse, interlocking their two-chord patterns or sometimes just working over a solitary one. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z “It is, thoroughly, unmistakably, a black man’s voice, declarative, deep, warm, with a faint twang in the nasal consonants.” Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine,’ a Novel About Changing Race 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z 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 About why the name Kramer worked best for Michael Richards’s character, she writes, “That plosive consonant K sound is known to be among the English language’s funniest phonemes.” Review: ‘Seinfeldia,’ on Why We Still Can’t Escape ‘Hello, Jerry’ 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z This sends the comic, a Comedy Cellar regular with a growing reputation, into a head-swiveling frenzy, spitting consonants. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z A cluster of voiced consonants together is just a death blow to a name now. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z 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 Listening to hip-hop radio stations — as is true with some reality-TV series — it’s easy to hear opening consonants that make perfectly clear which word has been partly removed. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z Katharine Hepburn, helplessly luminous, plays Mary with the clipped consonants, straight-backed posture and limited emotional range of a Boston debutante. A Bloody Rivalry for the Throne, This Time With Margot Robbie 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z “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 In this piece the listener will hear everything from dissonance to beautiful consonant tonal writing, to jazz to all kinds of things. All hail Joan of Arc, in music -- but in London? 2011-11-03T11:31:03Z Here the soprano didn’t need consonants for that single word of text. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z This was consonant, repetitious music, major and balladic in tone, but not form. 30 Years Later, Three Bands From New York’s Downtown Scene Unite for One Night 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z "For hardworking people," read the sign on the rostrum where the chancellor spoke, and at moments he sounded like he was making a point of dropping his consonants. George Osborne: paying the price of failure 2013-04-02T20:46:29Z With their sustained, purring timbre, the consonants “m” and “n” are stringed instruments. Arthur Lessac, Holistic Vocal Coach, Dies at 101 2011-04-18T06:00:03Z Not being consonant with the image of the “Lost Cause,” it was rarely mentioned in my youth and rarely mentioned now. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z There is the matter of his strange last name, its awkward B bristling aggressively in a string of consonants, defying casual pronunciation. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The excellent Seattle Symphony Chorale, prepared by Joseph Crnko, enunciated the German text so clearly that the consonants appeared to be issued from staple guns. A mighty Ninth and soaring voices 2011-12-29T17:30:06Z 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 "The joke ends, preferably, on an explosive consonant - like cut," she told Yael Kohen for the forthcoming oral history, "We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy." ArtsBeat: Phyllis Diller and Her Comic Craft 2012-08-22T16:23:43Z It is, to be sure, a movement that slurs its consonants at times, one that sways and weaves a bit toward the end of the night. A Blurry Line Between Bar and Restaurant 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z 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 Another of her idols, Mabel Mercer, was remembered with an analysis of Mercer’s elegant pronunciation of consonants. Review: Barbara Cook Sang Standards, With Audience Members as Acolytes 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z The music is intricate and technically imposing, but suffused with consonant melody and aglow with a spark of connection. With ‘The Seasons,’ Ben Wendel Redefines the Musical Encounter 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “But isn’t it very dangerous?” she asked in English, her consonants sharp as thorns. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z The arrangements are measured and careful, but the rest runs on impulse; what you retain of his shows are his improvisations, volatile from moment to moment but ultimately consonant and brought into line. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-25T21:59:41Z Its focus is on foreboding, occasional terror and the darkness she lived through, couched almost entirely in lushly homophonic textures and parallel movement and in a variety of comfortably consonant modal harmonies. In ‘Annelies’ D.C. premiere, music based on Anne Frank’s diary doesn’t reflect her voice He concedes: "I had underestimated the speed of the music, which turned the collision of consonants into major crashes." Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z 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 And when she gets to “sitting,” she takes a deep, five-second drag on the “s” so that it sounds less like a consonant and more like a lit fuse. Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z He was a sluggishly handsome nobody with sad, melted Paul McCartney eyes and a drawl in which the words ran together untroubled by consonants. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Even today, many data-compression algorithms and bluetooth speakers disproportionately affect high frequencies and consonants, and women’s voices lose definition, sounding thin and tinny. A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z 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 Others are consonant with her colorful clown series and darker “Horror” pictures, and some disjunctive digital additions even recall the prostheses of her fierce “Sex Pictures” of the early 1990s. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z At times, Puth's voice sounds "smudged" with consonants that are occasionally muddied and indistinct. YouTube tests AI tool that clones pop stars' voices 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The AI summit, and Rishi Sunak's encounter with tech billionaire Elon Musk, complete with dropped consonants and a mid-Atlantic twang, showed that No 10 can generate attention - it can make things happen. Laura Kuenssberg: Why the PM could be drowned out at the King's Speech 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z It also has the repeated consonant syllables that Britney tracks are known for. The ultimate Britney Spears karaoke power rankings 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z 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 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 Ms. Drakeford knew that “consonant” might be an unfamiliar word to some students. 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 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 At the beginning of a word, the letter h is never followed by a consonant. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “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 She paused for a minute while about 15 schoolchildren dutifully typed the same question — “What are consonants?” — into their math software. In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z 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 “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 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 The answer is no, only certain sounds, say only certain consonants, can occur at the end of the word. How to speak Na'vi: An interview with the creator of the alien language in "Avatar" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z When students asked Khanmigo the fraction question posted on the classroom’s white board, the bot answered that the word “mathematician” contained 13 letters and that seven of those letters were consonants. In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z “I’m not the total package,” she says, her consonants sticking to her tongue. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z 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 But it was the plosive consonants of her own language that best gave shape to her anger. In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z That meant the fraction of consonants was seven out of 13, the bot wrote, or 7/13. In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z If they want to influence society to a level consonant with their wealth, they’re going to have to open their private lives and private business practices to more public scrutiny. Column: Can America's billionaires please stop whining about their privacy rights? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z A new linguistic analysis suggests that the choice Adams made—substituting in the word “Belgium” at every instance—may unconsciously have reflected a cross-language pattern of using certain consonant sounds to soften “taboo” words. The Linguistics of Swearing Explain Why We Substitute Darn for Damn 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z They’re less likely than other words to include the consonant sounds L, R, W or Y. And more family-friendly versions of curses often have these sounds added, just like the R in “shirt” or “fork.” Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear) 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z 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 In student mode, the tutoring bot explained the steps and then directly provided the answer: “the fraction of consonants in the word ‘MATHEMATICIAN’ is 7/13.” In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z To begin with, said Sarab Al Ani, who teaches Arabic at Yale University, the first consonant in the word Qatar doesn’t really translate into a K or a Q sound. How Do You Pronounce Qatar? Probably Incorrectly. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z “It’s possible we were looking at things the wrong way,” he says, “that it’s actually approximants that de-taboo words in English and maybe other languages,” whether the taboo versions contain those satisfying consonants or not. The Linguistics of Swearing Explain Why We Substitute Darn for Damn 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z These sounds are called stop consonants because they interrupt the airflow when we’re speaking. Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear) 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z These include small ones like single consonants, and big ones like phrases made of several words. Why do people have slips of the tongue? 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Khanmigo said erroneously that there were eight consonants in the word “mathematician.” In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z And there was a verve to the delivery of the line, consonant with McMahon’s whole trench-coat-police-detective style, that charged the moment with almost cinematic energy. Review | Out of unbearable loss, a vision of radical hope 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “You can make opera with full orchestra and singers, and have it be consonant, have it be humble — and have tunes!” she says. How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels turned an enslaved man's narrative into an opera 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z In these languages, they didn’t find the harsh-sounding stop consonants that seem common in English swear words. Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear) 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The "Yew Nork" slip shows consonant sounds switching places — a sound exchange. Why do people have slips of the tongue? 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z That led the bot to provide a wrong answer: “8 consonants/ 14 total letters = 8/14” In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z 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 Alliteration: literary device consisting of repetition of initial consonant sounds. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z It would also be nice to learn why those consonants are missing. Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear) 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Notice that each of the consonants is first in its own syllable. Why do people have slips of the tongue? 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Even his speech occasionally slurs to a halt, as if his mouth resents the climb of consonants. Mike Birbiglia swims for his life in 'The Old Man and the Pool' at the Taper 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Further testing of vagus motor function has the patient repeating consonant sounds that require movement of the muscles around the fauces. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Speakers with rhotic accents pronounce the /r/ before consonants and at the end of a word. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z French is an exception, she noted — swear words in French have just as many of the gentler consonant sounds as other words. Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear) 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z 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 Washington Post theater critic Lloyd Rose found Mrs. Hansen “simply delicious, hitting her consonants with a resounding whack that knocks the lines over the fence.” June Hansen, prize-winning actress, dies at 95 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Movements of the tongue, soft palate, or superior pharynx can be observed directly while the patient swallows, while the gag reflex is elicited, or while the patient says repetitive consonant sounds. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Alexander Graham Bell’s invention had difficulty picking up certain consonants, which is why Thomas Edison’s improved microphone became the standard way of converting sound vibrations into an electrical signal. These Three Overlooked Black Inventors Shaped Our Lives 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “Russian Doll” turns somersaults to get where it’s going, but its conclusions are emotionally unambiguous and universally useful and consonant with the previous season’s themes of attachment and surrender. ‘Russian Doll’ didn't need a second season, but the series pulls it off beautifully 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The rule under which she acted is “outdated and no longer consonant with the circumstances of contemporary life,” the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said. Lawyer: Let legislature decide if suicide cancels conviction 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Even when the actor’s Scottish accent swallows up some of Crimp’s dynamic consonants, especially in the famous speech in which Cyrano rattles off insults at his own prodigious nose, the effect is heroically electric. Review | James McAvoy is a Cyrano knockout, and Sam Rockwell is a blast in Mamet 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z A patient is asked to repeat the nonsense consonants “lah-kah-pah” to alternate movements of the tongue, lips, and palate. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z I loved the soft consonants and the hard consonants. "The control I thought I had was one big fat illusion": When crisis makes you not yourself anymore 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 To humans, consonant music generally sounds pleasant and smooth—think a C major chord—whereas dissonance tends to sound jarring and uncomfortable, such as the score from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Pigs, like people, react emotionally to music 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Tyler’s lyrics formed a cataract of consonants that worked themselves into frenzied screeches or passionate croons. Review | Tyler, the Creator keeps reinventing himself in concert 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The speech rapid alternating movement subtest is specifically using the consonant changes of “lah-kah-pah” to assess coordinated movements of the lips, tongue, pharynx, and palate. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z SnOBJECTION: The appendage “sn” is a mere consonant cluster undeserving of the name “prefix,” and in fact the rules of this contest insisted on a full syllable. Style Invitational Week 1474: Hyphen the Terrible 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z She also requested Himelstein’s presence on-set, and the two would run lines and do tongue twisters or consonant drills in James’ trailer while she was having her hair and makeup done. Lily James hoped to 'disappear' into Pamela Anderson. Instead, she saw herself 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Pieces of consonant music were linked to the pigs experiencing positive emotions, whereas the dissonant music was linked to negative emotions, the team reports this month in Scientific Reports. Pigs, like people, react emotionally to music 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z 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 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 “Adventure Time” creator Pendleton Ward surrealistically, psychedelically animates around interviews from collaborator Duncan Trussell’s mystically minded “Duncan Trussell Family Hour” podcast, framing them, to consonant or contrasting effect, as virtual interplanetary travel. The 75 best TV shows on Netflix right now, according to our experts 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z 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 For several interested observers, the swift strokes that produced two long, angled consonants in “Luka” also sharpened Occam’s razor. An Autographed Card Sold for $4.6 Million. Did Luka Doncic Really Sign It? 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Pärt, the spiritually esthetic 85-year-old Estonian composer, happens to be the holiest of the Holy Minimalists, as those Eastern European composers who get to consonant essentials are sometimes called. Review: At the Ford in Hollywood, a revelatory L.A. Phil concert of riveting opposites 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z “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 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 Behind her back, she understood, they changed the last consonants. Review | A scientist’s career in communion with trees 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z But few sounds are as difficult to master as the rounded Os, erratic As, dropped consonants and smushed syllables of the Philadelphia accent — or Filelfia acksent, as the locals would say. How Kate Winslet nailed the accent TV fans can't stop talking about 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z There is a slew of literature on these topics, going more in-depth about how vocal chords vibrate when pronouncing certain letters or sounds, voiced vs. unvoiced consonants and other linguistic details. Italian-Americans and the language of food: How calamari became galamar and ricotta became rigott 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The study found the Neanderthal ear’s sweet spot extended toward frequencies of 3 to 5 kHz, which are specifically dedicated to consonant production. Neanderthals Listened to the World Much Like Us 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z These unvoiced consonant sounds are common in most of our species’ languages. Neandertals Probably Perceived Speech Quite Well 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The music was both varied and likable across a range of tastes, which is to say, consonant with the theme of difference in union. Trump treated the arts as an adversary. Biden's first day told a different story 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In the flow of a news conference, it’s hard to expect him to avoid the occasional misplaced consonant. In Josh Bell, the Nationals added a big bat. Now Mike Rizzo might search for another. 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z There is also an identifiable banlieue accent, popular among people of immigrant origin and characterised by hard consonants and rapid-fire delivery. Why France may ban discrimination against accents 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z “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 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 Such slogans invariably make use of the power of hard consonants - the k, t, b and hard c. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The researchers also found that consonants are culprits in carrying aerosols while carrying a tune, according to the study, and many of the consonant letters they identified were discovered in the song "Happy Birthday." Can singing 'Happy Birthday' spread coronavirus? 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z I applaud, too, that the museum will continue to honor Roosevelt’s contribution as a “pioneering conservationist,” which is consonant with its mission as a museum of natural history. Opinion | Removing the Statues (T.R. and Others) 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z “I think the reason ‘rainbow’ worked for me is because it’s followed by a really hard word,” Williams explained, referring to the consonants in “connection.” Searching for hope? Kacey Musgraves' 'Rainbow' is a psalm, and balm, for the pandemic era 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The unequal treatment of the two kinds of health — physical over mental — is consonant with our society’s ongoing disregard for psychological stability. Opinion | When the Pandemic Leaves Us Alone, Anxious and Depressed 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z 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 For non-Maltese unfamiliar with the surname, it can be a bit challenging to pronounce, what with the collision of drumlike consonants at the end. In Malta, a land of 2,850 Buttigiegs, they’re rooting for Mayor Pete 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 We were told to enunciate our dropped consonants and lose our universal “they” pronoun and resurrect the “is” and “are” linking verbs that we’d so efficiently eliminated from our sentences. Zora Neale Hurston’s new collection highlights her unapologetic celebration of Black culture 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z She was close, but confused the consonants in the name, saying "Lawensa" instead. Woman stars on quiz show that taught her English 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Extending political control over an independent judiciary would be consonant with the Johnson-Cummings project. Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country's history, is done 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z “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 The clutch of cruel consonants caught in one’s throat. Howard Jacobson: 'A feelgood Holocaust exploits the dead and demeans the living' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Zora was one of the original carefree Black girls, and reading these stories feels like permission to drop your consonants, wear your hair big and use “ain’t” all you want. Zora Neale Hurston’s new collection highlights her unapologetic celebration of Black culture 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z "We think this is specifically because the consonant clusters that are so common in English pose a challenge for a degenerating speech-planning system," said study author Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, professor of neurology and psychiatry. Languages affected differently by brain disease 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Some tortured mouthful of consonants that captures the ceaseless anxiety and absurdity of Washington in the age of Trump? Our Year of Trumpschmerz 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z 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 Now, as we reach the 75th anniversary of its liberation on 27 January, the horror associated with those consonants has dissolved into an almost jaunty familiarity. Howard Jacobson: 'A feelgood Holocaust exploits the dead and demeans the living' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The students repeated: A blend is two consonants that come together and make their own sound. What happened when schools used science to revamp how reading is taught 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z And many experiments have shown that musical training improves certain hearing capabilities, like filtering voices from background noise or distinguishing the difference between the consonants ‘b’ and ‘g’. Do music lessons really make children smarter? 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z During the final puzzle in regulation, Evans appeared to ask for the consonant B. However, Sajak seemed to hear Evans say "D." ‘Wheel of Fortune’ fans fume after Pat Sajak seemingly makes mistake 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z She sends me photos of The Big Rig and in return I bore her to death speculating about his approach to consonants. What does it mean to be an uncle? I have no blueprint for the love I feel for my nephew | Tiger Webb 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z In the new study, researchers gathered blood samples from 200 living people in groups whose DNA is poorly known, including foragers and hunter-gatherers in Namibia and South Africa who speak Khoisan languages with click consonants. Experts question study claiming to pinpoint birthplace of all humans 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Like her, Jessica speaks with an accent—flattened “R”s, tightened “O”s, elided consonants—and has a predilection for dropping articles. Constance Wu’s Hollywood Destiny 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z There is something niggardly and petty about the meanness, something entirely consonant with the values — if we may use that word — of an administration that argued against providing its captives toothpaste and soap. Caged children and everyday evil 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z While selecting her three consonants, it appeared Evans asked for "B-H-B." ‘Wheel of Fortune’ fans fume after Pat Sajak seemingly makes mistake 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Pronounced “blatinum”, it is a reference to Dubai music institution Platinum Records, the swapped consonant a joke about Shabjdeed’s accent – there is no “p” sound in Arabic. 'If Israeli soldiers start shooting, we won't stop the interview': Palestinian hip-hop crew BLTNM 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Chords, some consonant, some whatever the cat might have created walking on the keys, came and went, came and went, most quietly. Review: Why ‘Noon to Midnight’ is the new-music bargain that’s hard to beat 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z 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 "All of the letters are in lower case and there are no double consonants." Medieval manuscript code unlocked 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z “By the way, the third consonant was a D. Is that what you said? B-H-D?” ‘Wheel of Fortune’ fans fume after Pat Sajak seemingly makes mistake 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z 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 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 Pencil in hand, they chanted the 14 consonants and 10 vowels of the Korean alphabet as their teacher, Jo Yoon-jeong, 24, wrote them one by one on the white board. Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z On the phone from Britain, Wainwright speaks in quick, declarative sentences, gentled a bit by her Yorkshire accent with its long A’s, round O’s and forgiving consonants, but still quite direct. Sally Wainwright and the not so secret life of a television revolutionary. In Yorkshire. With a female gaze. 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Vowels are stretched for whooshing emphasis; consonants are crashed upon with the force of a speeding car against a highway divider. Review: Glenda Jackson battles through a brazenly busy ‘King Lear’ on Broadway 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The gritty silken sound of sand on wood, the sighing slap of magazine pages, the clip of a well-enunciated consonant get me every time. The tingle is all around us: ASMR is the anti-digital digital phenomenon 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z To test this hypothesis, they analyzed databases of the world’s consonants and showed contemporary hunter–gatherer languages contain only a fraction of the labiodental sounds that food-producer languages do. Mind Your "Fs" and "Vs": Agriculture May Have Shaped Both Human Jaws and Language 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Languages spoken by groups with hunter-gatherer societies in their more recent past are far less likely to use consonants used by longtime farming societies, the study found. The way you speak now was shaped by what your ancestors ate 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Those consonants also spread through other language groups; today, they appear in 76% of Indo-European languages. Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Further analysis found that labiodental consonants could have spread rapidly in languages since the dawn of agriculture, to the point that they are found in half of the 7,000 or so languages still spoken. Holy fudge: soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds – study 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The Supreme Judicial Court unanimously found that the legal rule that erased Hernandez's conviction is “outdated and no longer consonant with the circumstances of contemporary life.” Aaron Hernandez’s murder conviction reinstated by Massachusetts court 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The Supreme Judicial Court unanimously found that the legal rule that erased Hernandez's conviction is "outdated and no longer consonant with the circumstances of contemporary life." Court reinstates late Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z In that respect, this representation is consonant with the representation I’ve engaged in all my life. A Harvard Law School Professor Defends His Decision to Represent Harvey Weinstein 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Well, I think we should rejoin the Paris climate accords, for openers, and adopt percentages that are consonant with our responsibility. The Republican Planning to Run Against Trump in 2020 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Retaining an overbite did not lead directly to labiodental consonants but it allowed people to make the sounds more easily, Blasi said. Holy fudge: soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds – study 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The singers have to keep the beat, modulate volume, match vowels, and articulate consonants in perfect synch or sequence. Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z He muttered “virtual ghost, virtual pet, virtual ghost, virtual pet” to himself as if testing it, biting off each consonant. A young journalist, an old lady, and a vintage e-pet reunion 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Or is it a place of give-and-take, where our nation must deal with the outside world in a way consonant with our values and showing awareness that absolute sovereignty is a dangerous illusion? Why Trump's 'big, beautiful' border wall will never work | Andrew Gawthorpe 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z It seems to be consonant with the cross-party view that has prevailed for decades now, that we should be strengthening workers’ rights in this country ... Jeremy Corbyn delivers speech on Brexit - Politics live 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Computer models of the jaw showed that with a normal human overbite, it takes 29% less energy to form labiodental consonants than when the upper and lower teeth are aligned. Holy fudge: soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds – study 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The Greeks’ genius was to take the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted of twenty-two consonants, and add vowels to it. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z In order to simplify the vowels and consonants, the children’s choir had to sing “bellend” and “ring peace”. 'Someone called me the antichrist': behind the battles for Christmas No 1 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z An alternative theory is far more consonant with the facts. The American Economy Is Rigged 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The L.G.B.T. consonant cluster was being elongated, litigated and traded in for more flexible banners like queer and genderqueer, and “binary” was suddenly a dirty word. Alessandro Michele, Fashion’s Modern Mastermind 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z But the Vatican said last week in a statement that “it may emerge that choices were taken that would not be consonant with a contemporary approach to such issues.” ‘Why the rush?’: Some ask whether Vatican should be more cautious in elevating popes to saints 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The Greeks also added consonants for sounds they needed that the Phoenicians didn’t have. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z At times she would actually substitute nonsense syllables for a song’s text, when she appeared to feel that the words as written, with their congestion of consonants, would impede the flow of pure, vowelly sound. Montserrat Caballé, Revered Spanish Prima Donna, Dies at 85 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The Vatican said it was aware that such an investigation may produce evidence "that choices were taken that would not be consonant with a contemporary approach to such issues." Pope OKs study of Vatican archives into McCarrick scandal 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The Vatican issued a statement Saturday saying it was aware that such an investigation may produce evidence “that choices were taken that would not be consonant with a contemporary approach to such issues.” Pope OKs study of Vatican archives into McCarrick scandal 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z But Benjamin’s passions were not especially consonant with the times. How the Composer George Benjamin Finally Found His Voice 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Somewhere along the way, I had stopped dropping articles and softening consonants, because it was too difficult a ruse to maintain while also trying to be authentic. “Audition” 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Still microtonally dissonant and consonant, this is just how you would expect a wily drifter into the American Academy of Outsider Arts and Scrawled Graffiti to sound. A festival's final concert brings the microtonal outsiders in 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Another that is spelled with a consonant that is pronounced atypically — spelled with an “f,” but pronounced like a “v.” What to do when your boss keeps mispronouncing your name 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z But the particular sequence of consonants, plus expectations of what people normally kiss, creates a “slip of the ear,” according to Andrew Nevins, a linguist at University College London. Yanny or Laurel? Your Brain Hears What It Wants To 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z In his fiction, Mr. Wolfe employed a liberal use of onomatopoeia, concocting mashups of vowels and consonants to capture sounds. Tom Wolfe: A Life in Full 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z When I spoke, I tried to approximate the speech patterns of my co-workers—the softened consonants and the dropped articles—lest I reveal myself for the outsider that I was. “Audition” 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z As he put it in Federalist No. 10, a chosen representative may “best discern the true interest of their country” and may provide a voice “more consonant to the public good.” Perspective | Many GOP politicians dislike Trump. They’re terrified to admit it. 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z But if that vowel was followed by a consonant, the time after the beat went up an average of 80 milliseconds. If you listen closely, the drumbeats of Amazonian tribes sound like human speech 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z A tendency to drop final vowels, and pronounce the preceding consonant, resembles Catalan. Occitan's fight to stay away from the cliff of extinction 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But Fox remains, even if Sea Haity loses some serious consonants. Opinion | There’s an easy way for Trump to end all this unpleasantness 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, their models suggest that such individuals may find it difficult to learn click consonants or that their pronunciations may be different.* Why Click Speech Is Rare 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z She is precise with her consonants and extravagant with her vowels. Netflix's 'Barbra: The Music... The Mem'ries... The Magic!' captures Streisand in top form 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z And a vowel followed by two consonants added a final 30 milliseconds. If you listen closely, the drumbeats of Amazonian tribes sound like human speech 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z A singer understands the physicality of words, how consonants are formed, how a shift in the shape of a vowel can have disastrous effects. Kicked out for being gay then rescued by opera: writer Garth Greenwell's extraordinary awakening 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z When you first enter the app, you’re taken through three to four videos about your language of choice’s alphabet, its consonants and vowels, and the spelling rules that produce those consonants and vowels. How Fluent Forever became the most funded app in Kickstarter history 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Amplified over generations, this bias might explain why such consonants are so rarely found in languages worldwide. Why Click Speech Is Rare 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z “Here’s the deal: I like to be behind the scenes. And I don’t like people talking about me or writing about me,” she said, enunciating so precisely she bares her teeth on every consonant. ‘I’ve had to work my a– off to prove myself’: Meet the NBA’s only female agent with a client 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z You had to put air through certain consonants and hit the “k” in “like” very hard. How we made West Side Story 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The opinion also managed to take a snide, condescending tone, in a manner sadly consonant with the Trump era and beneath the gravity of the issues at stake. Opinion | D.C.’s concealed-carry regulations just suffered a shot across the bow 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Despite the grunting and geckering, though, no other primates — not even the chimpanzees and bonobos, our nearest ape relatives — can make the vowel and consonant sounds we know as speech. Why can’t monkeys talk? Scientists rumble over a curious question. 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z On seeing the fateful mailing to her roommate that day in the early ’60s, she wondered whether those two incompatible consonants might solve her problem. Sheila Michaels, Who Brought ‘Ms.’ to Prominence, Dies at 78 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Syllables merge into one and consonants are dispensed with entirely, so the word “centre” becomes “sinner”. Steve Earle: 'My wife left me for a younger, skinnier, less talented singer' 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Haida has some 35 consonants and two tones. Reviving a Lost Language of Canada Through Film 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z We write “co-operate” and “re-elect” for an analogous reason: this time breaking up vowels rather than consonants that would be awkward together. Hysteria over hyphens 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Ananya Vinay of Fresno, California won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, taking home a $40,000 cash prize after 12 hours of picking her way along a precarious lifeline of consonants and vowels. Ananya Vinay wins the 2017 U.S. Scripps National Spelling Bee 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z In the end, then, Ms. Michaels leaves a legacy both minute and momentous: two consonants and a small dot — three characters that forever changed English discourse. Sheila Michaels, Who Brought ‘Ms.’ to Prominence, Dies at 78 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Iberian Spanish makes use of the sound “th” in many places where Latin American speakers just have “s” – for example, the middle consonant in the word gracias. Covfefe is a word now. Deal with it 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s true that some of the revelations regarding this infidelity were not strictly consonant with the dignity of a future king. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z When Medvedev tried to dress or talk like Putin, donning bomber jackets or aspirating his consonants in the style of his mentor, the effects were more comic than threatening. Dmitry Medvedev: the whipping boy for Russia's discontented 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z As sounds at those frequencies fade, speech becomes harder to understand, because consonants are pitched higher than vowels and when they disappear sentences turn to mush. High-Tech Hope for the Hard of Hearing 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Sheila Michaels, who half a century ago, wielding two consonants and a period, changed the way modern women are addressed, died on June 22 in Manhattan. Sheila Michaels, Who Brought ‘Ms.’ to Prominence, Dies at 78 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Another that did not swap the consonants attracted heckling from a white van stuck in nearby traffic. Nick Clegg tells EU march there is a 'perpetual sense of anger' over Brexit 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z “Lyin’ Ted!” he insisted, reveling in applause as he emphasized the missing consonant. The furor over Trump's travel ban shows his gift for catchphrases might have a downside 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The team studied kiss squeaks in particular because, like many consonants - the /t/, /p/, /k/ sounds - they depend on the action of the lips, tongue and jaw rather than the voice. Orangutan squeaks reveal language evolution, says study - BBC News 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr Zavascki became a household name—in spite of the string of consonants inherited from his Polish forebears—because he oversaw investigations into the corruption scandal centred on Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company. Death of a Brazilian justice 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Korean consonants are unlike those spoken in Dutch. Babies remember their birth language - scientists - BBC News 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Standing backstage, just behind the realistic set of a Chicago courthouse pressroom of the 1920s, you begin to make out the jumble of consonants and vowels that the actors are repeating in unison: Inside ‘The Front Page’: Pulling off a huge Broadway production night after night 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Some linguists think that is how click consonants found their way into Bantu speech: in words borrowed from Khoisan languages, which use clicks extensively. Talking to In-laws Can Be Hard. In Some Languages, It’s Impossible. 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z "Most human languages have a lot more consonants than vowels," said Prof Wich. Orangutan squeaks reveal language evolution, says study - BBC News 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The Hampshire Superior Court judge wrote in her recent decision she didn’t conclude that either of those verdicts is “more consonant with justice” than the jury’s verdict. Judge won’t reduce murder verdict in strangulation death 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Vowels are important to speech, for example, but so are consonants. Monkeys Could Talk, but They Don’t Have the Brains for It 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Finally, the researchers input Emiliano’s vocal tract configurations into a computer program that simulates vowel and consonant production given different anatomical settings. Why monkeys can’t talk—and what they would sound like if they could 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Also, the fact that everything is in Latin doesn’t absolve singers from enunciating consonants, as some of us are trying to follow along in the printed text. Tallis Scholars offers gems and world-class singing 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z I’m twenty-seven, and in some ways my life has been consonant with the experience of women throughout history. Aftermath: Sixteen New Yorker Writers on Trump’s America 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Stop consonants—which include “k” and “b”—seem heavier than fricatives, like “s” and “z.” What’s in a Brand Name? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z “But Donald Trump, who doesn’t seem to overanalyse anything, is likely to take a stance against Pakistan, which would be consonant with his stance on Islamic terrorism, and would be in India’s favour.” 'An epochal change': what a Trump presidency means for the Asia Pacific region 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Really, it's only five syllables, consonant plus vowel all neatly strung out in a row ... Turn Onto Old Dixie. After a Long, Rocky Stretch, It Becomes Obama Highway. 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z But only consonant pedants would demand a translation of the name of the busy thoroughfare which runs perpendicular to George Bush Boulevard. Kosovo's love affair with the Clintons - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But there are plenty of hurdles before any vowels and consonants are devoured. It took the power of Batman and PlayStation VR to turn a skeptic in an almost-believer 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But it was fun to hear the announcer pronounce the alternating vowels and consonants of his melodically polysyllabic name. ‘The team to see’: A veteran reporter recalls experiencing a Cubs game in 1945 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The words contained only consonants and no vowels, in the practice of the oldest Hebrew script. Researchers Reconstruct Early Version of Old Testament Text From Burned Scroll 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z "It is still true that for the most part the relation of a word's meaning to its consonants and vowels is arbitrary. That is what makes historical comparison possible in the first place," Nichols wrote. A nose by any other name: Biology may affect the way we invent words 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z When David Gockley, the recently retired general director of San Francisco Opera, commissioned the opera he approached Sheng and expressed his desire for “a lyrical, harmonically consonant piece with a lot of Chinese folk colour”. Dream of the Red Chamber: a Chinese epic bursts into song 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z We can end an English syllable, for instance, with a group of consonants, like “frisks,” but that’s verboten in Japanese, whose syllables end with a vowel. His white suit unsullied by research, Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But for those who favor a touch of flamboyance and uncertainty—not to mention the opportunity to employ a few extra consonants—Gewürztraminer, dry or sweet, just might be worth a try. Gewürztraminer: A Rare, Rewarding Wine (Even If You Can’t Pronounce It) 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z I’m just trying to decide whether to see his movie — whether doing so is consonant with the moral man I try to be. Moral discord, a movie and a rape case 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Many Wandelweiser composers feel free to dwell on a sweetly consonant interval or chord. The Composers of Quiet 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Democracy, he argued, was “of all forms of government the most natural, and the most consonant with individual liberty.” Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z French words are connected by the liaison system, in which a word ending in a consonant links to the next one if it begins with a vowel. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z They found that preference for consonant sounds correlated directly with exposure to Western music. Music is universal — but the way it makes us feel may not be 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z And sometimes the expectations for one individual are perfectly consonant with his or her behavior, while the same behavior would be scandalous for another individual because the expectations of the two are so very different. Media’s gift to Trump: Low expectations and, therefore, the ease with which to surpass them 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z They tested consonant chords, which are common in Western and many other musical cultures, as well as dissonant ones. Poor musical taste? Blame your upbringing 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The consonant example above is made of tones with 3:2 frequency ratio. Your culture—not your biology—shapes your musical taste 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Mouths need time to move into position for the next vowel or consonant. I have found a new way to watch TV, and it changes everything 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The plosive sounds - usually made with the letters P, T, K, B, D and G - had to be substituted with other consonants that didn’t require moving her lips. Prized Virginia Beach ventriloquist dummy up for sale 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z For instance, Wilentz’s affinity for happy political combat on behalf of left-of-center goals is consonant with the former secretary of state’s presidential announcement speech a year ago this month. Is Sean Wilentz’s historical view a good hint for how Clinton would govern? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “You sort of just squeeze those together and make some sort of word that has those consonant sounds. For me, seven-three-two turns into ‘gaming.’ Lessons from America’s First Memory World Champion 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The researchers asked 64 Tsimane participants to rate the pleasantness of consonant and dissonant sounds played over headphones. Your culture—not your biology—shapes your musical taste 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Vowels and consonants drag on longer than necessary for us to understand them. I have found a new way to watch TV, and it changes everything 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z If a Trump presidency is consonant with those values, it will be an easy vote. Seven top Republicans lay out how the GOP should respond to Trump as front-runner 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z James Madison, the "father" of the Constitution, famously argued the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves. Direct Democracy May Be Key to a Happier American Democracy 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z "I think it's an absolute throwback and it's consonant with what the cartoon is, which is a throwback notion," Mankoff said. New Yorker cartoon doc 'Very Semi-Serious' asks a lot of amusing questions 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z The dreamy “Tzama L’cha Nafshi” kicks off the album with the ancient tongue’s deep vowels and throaty consonants, followed by the equally mesmerizing “Easy Pray” in the language of the New World. Bulletproof Stockings, all-female Hasidic Jewish rock group, releases first CD 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z On she goes, speaking in the Detroit twang of her youth, where consonants are dropped and vowels flattened and sentiments expressed as convincing fact. Lily Tomlin: ‘I don’t relate to any of my life, except the stories I’m telling you’ 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Her voice, all plummy vowels and tart consonants, ranges from a boom to a quaver. Diana Athill: ‘I expected to be shattered at the loss of my baby, and I wasn't' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z In a recent study examining the songs of seven individual rappers, researchers found that partial rhymes such as life-light, in which the last consonant differs, occurred very frequently. How to Rhyme Like a Rapper 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The V, found on Cadillac, is the last of them alphabetically but possibly Speed Racer’s first consonant of choice. Video Review: Cadillac’s ATS-V, a Socially Refined Muscle Car 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z One possible explanation for why vowel-rich languages appear more frequently in the tropics is that they travel farther than languages dominated by rapid-fire, high-frequency consonants, which lose their fidelity in humid, forested environments, he says. Human language may be shaped by climate and terrain 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The presence of such languages in the world—and the absence of any languages that prioritize vowels—adds further support to the idea that consonants are key. Does an "M" Sound Round to You? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z It’s like a word that ends with a consonant, not a vowel. Schubert’s Cry from the Beyond 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Long considered part of the verbal artistry of hip-hop, this latter type of word play also reflects a sophisticated awareness of what consonants sound like in different parts of words. How to Rhyme Like a Rapper 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z HealthCorps is reaching thousands of high school students across the country with an innovative peer mentoring program, delivering messages consonant with our Food Day agenda, and with our UnJunk Yourself videos. The 4 Pillars of Food 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z In the study, Maddieson and Coupé simply looked at the number of vowels, consonants, and consonants per syllable for each language. Human language may be shaped by climate and terrain 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z A small follow-up experiment, however, showed that the effect was not limited to a few consonants. Does an "M" Sound Round to You? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Linear B, a script in which each symbol stands for a syllable, was later succeeded by the familiar Greek alphabet in which each symbol represents a single vowel or consonant. Grave of ‘Griffin Warrior’ at Pylos Could Be a Gateway to Civilizations 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Next is a thorough audiological exam, conducted in a soundproof room, that checks each ear for the ability to hear consonants and whole words. The Hurdles to Getting Hearing Aids 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Sounds in that range include vowels and some consonants, Quam said. I'm all ears: fossils reveal human ancestors' hearing abilities 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Why does the Hawaiian language flow melodically from vowel to vowel, whereas Hungarian is peppered with consonants? Human language may be shaped by climate and terrain 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z But it is consonants that do the hard work of conveying meaning. Does an "M" Sound Round to You? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Soon, the clotted consonants will shuck their strangeness and he will have friends. The turmoil of today's world: leading writers respond to the refugee crisis 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z A range of colourful adjectives, no harsh consonants, enunciated softly & gently, lilting intonation – finer than Italian in singing. The lyrical quality of languages 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z "In our judgment the gasification of the coal contained under these licences would represent a major advance towards Scottish energy self-sufficiency and is therefore entirely consonant with the concept of Scottish independence," he said. Cluff Natural Resources puts Firth of Forth gas extraction plan on hold - BBC News 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Eisenhower certainly merits a memorial, but one consonant with his astonishing achievements and Midwestern unpretentiousness. The proposed Eisenhower memorial is a monstrosity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Indeed, certain languages such as Arabic and Hebrew clearly prioritize consonants over vowels, often omitting vowels from texts. Does an "M" Sound Round to You? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z His name was too difficult for me to pronounce but I practiced growling the consonant at the back of my throat. Love and War 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z “Why don’t you just learn to accept how you sound?” asks one of Thorpe’s friends, as the filmmaker is deep into his remediation of his drawn-out vowels, over-articulated consonants and sibilant “esses.” ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ asks tough questions about internalized homophobia 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z And consonants are more vulnerable to noise than vowels, which tend to be louder and longer, Kraus explained. Study: Early clue to why some children may have reading woes 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z "The verdict rendered by the jury is consonant with justice." Judge upholds ex-NFL star Hernandez' murder conviction 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z She speaks the phrase, and lingers over the consonants. Jenny Hval’s Experimental, Feminist Folk Music 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z “International trade is fundamentally good for the U.S. economy, beneficial to American families over time, and consonant with our domestic priorities,” the letter began. Democrats Turn Against Free-Trade Treaties 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z They were officially recognized as “mountain Turks” and barred from even spelling their names with certain consonants not used in written Turkish. Turkey’s Kurds find themselves on threshold of unprecedented power 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z I saw no evidence that President Obama’s secretary of state had suddenly developed a sensible, post-imperium foreign strategy consonant with a new era. We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House has turned truth in the Ukraine on its head 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z It was so consonant with his personality because he’s very witty. The author of ‘A Beautiful Mind’ on the life and death of John Nash 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z For this perpetual third party, proportional representation was the Holy Grail that would win them a share of seats consonant with their popular support. Misrule Britannia: The U.K.’s Screwed-Up Election 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Others even criticized Miliband’s accent in the interview, claiming he dropped consonants to sound more “street” than he really is. Russell Brand steps into UK election with Miliband interview 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Others even criticized Miliband's accent in the interview, claiming he dropped consonants to sound more "street" than he really is. Russell Brand steps into UK election with Miliband interview 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z When he does, his accent is local to Baldwin County itself, and old enough that the edges long ago wore away from his consonants. In Alabama same-sex marriage battle, county judges caught in the middle 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z When your name ends in five consonants and your best major tournament advances are seven years apart — third round of 2008 U.S. Tennis' little-known Timea Bacsinszky tells important personal tale 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Lilting, but guttural on the right consonants, it recalls the kind of intonation found in the taverns of my parents' native Dyfed in south Wales. A Welsh enclave in America 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z But this is New York, a melting pot of vowels and consonants, where names that are unfamiliar elsewhere in the country are common in the city’s corridors of power, including government. The Trouble Pronouncing Shola Olatoye, New York’s Housing Chief 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z What he actually said was gibberish - a random, incomprehensible assortment of consonants and vowels. Wyoming safety Xavier Lewis finds purpose after stroke 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z I immediately recognized his distinctively Russian accent — soft consonants, elongated vowels, rolled r’s. Over Chess, Everybody Speaks Russian 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Every kind of music sounds amazing on the M500: voices are clear and natural with delicate consonants, guitars and piano sound natural and accurate, and the bass lines aren’t muddy, but clear and rich. These Are the Best On-Ear Headphones You Can Buy 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z “It’s important in terms of providing an entertainment product that is consonant with the kind of society in which we live,” Manfred said. Unafraid of change, Rob Manfred steps to plate, faces pitches on pace of play, gambling 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “You hear a lot about our game, our society — how do the two fit together? — and is baseball and its pacing consonant with our society,” Manfred said. Robert Manfred Is Determined to Steer Young People Toward Baseball 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z They will reject any law that does not seem consonant with our original constitutional thought or which seems motivated merely by the passions of the day. Why Conservatives Should Take a Stand Against Citizens United 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Moreover, the perspective is surprisingly consonant — in some ways — with the new approach by our own National Institute of Mental Health, which funds much of the research on mental illness in this country. Redefining Mental Illness 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z And he knew that the point of arrival could be conveyed by stops or plosives, which are consonants in which the air flow is blocked: b, d, p, t. The Weird Science of Naming New Products 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But the symbolic nature of the event should not itself obscure that Obama’s apparent indifference to it was, in fact, consonant with his indifference to Europe and its leaders. Obama’s slap at France 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z She was looking for ways to remember how to spell the multiple sounds in consonant combinations involving the letter “H.” Leadership Lessons: Brought to You by the Letter 'H' 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z One instance of this can be heard in Iron Range speakers sometimes pronouncing certain consonants differently. That Minnesota accent is something to be proud of 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z For instance, in a phenomenon known as the McGurk effect, people can be made to hear one consonant when a similar one is being spoken. The Science Of Misheard Lyrics or Mondegreens 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z But Sounder I and II concentrated exclusively on the initial sounds of a word — its first consonant or vowel or both. The Weird Science of Naming New Products 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Why, his worldview is practically “consonant with Ms. Warren’s,” the Post writes. All about the banks: Washington Post scolds Elizabeth Warren for “irrational” populism 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Certain consonants - F, L, R, Q - do not appear. Saginaw Chippewa tribe preserving ancient language 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z |
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