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...t of the exhaled air passes out through the nostrils, resulting in mostly nasal sounds. When we talk, on the other hand, most of the air goes out... ... our noses. We exhale through the nose to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the qua... ...ants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easier to understand. 4 Our windpipe opening, ... ...t of the exhaled air passes out through the nostrils. That produces mostly nasal sounds. Human voice boxes sit lower in the throat. When we talk, ... ...r noses. We exhale through the nose to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the voice box made speech easi... ...ce, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambigu... ...Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vow...

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...t of the exhaled air passes out through the nostrils, resulting in mostly nasal sounds. When we talk, on the other hand, most of the air goes out t... ... our noses. We exhale through the nose to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quali... ...onants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easier to understand. 4 Our windpipe opening, ho... ...t of the exhaled air passes out through the nostrils. That produces mostly nasal sounds. Human voice boxes sit lower in the throat. When we talk, mo... ...our noses. We exhale through the nose to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the voice box made speech easi... ...ce, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguit... ...Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vow...

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...ows the rich- ness of the language. There are twenty-nine letters, besides vowel points; and each letter is written in four different ways, so that it... ...l that were called upon to read did so fluently; the singing was harsh and nasal enough, but in very good time; their count- ing very good, and their ... ...peculiar terminations, the law by which the 317 Yo n g e transposition of vowels and consonants is governed in gen- eral. All these things soon come ...

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...yming to ‘wept,’ ‘adapt,’ etc., occurs more frequently.)—one with the long vowel of the present- form, the other with a vowel-change (Of course, where... ...the present- form, the other with a vowel-change (Of course, wherever this vowel-shortening takes place, whether indicated by a corresponding change i... ...to indicate the pronunciation intended by Shelley. In the editions the two vowel-sounds are confounded under the one spelling, ‘leapt.’ In a few cases... ...2. 2. 2. 2. His eyes turned up, his mouth turned down; His accent caught a nasal twang; He oiled his hair; there might be heard The grace of God in ev...

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...over the head of his cane, and steadfastly gazed upon us. The notes of the nasal orchestra were rising and falling upon his ear, and a new idea sugges... ...glish. The result was that, between the two, they made such a fricassee of vowels and consonants that it was enough to turn one’s brain. The next morn...

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...ian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua... ...e they should be—except that the voices were all of the same calibre. A woman once sang from the back row with a very fine contralto voice spoilt by b...

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... monotonous; she insisted that 43 George Meredith it was Huguenot; harsh, nasal, sombre, insolent, self-suffi- cient. Her eyes lightened for the flas... ...t he had an oration for you. Seen from a distance, his baldness and strong nasal projection were not winning features; the youthful standard he had ev... ...g and plastering a doctor of his acquaintance,’ Mr. Romfrey said, with his nasal laugh com- posed of scorn and resignation. ‘Yes, yes, I’ve heard,’ sa... ...visham. He arrived in the best of moods for the emis- sion of high-pitched vowel-sounds; otherwise in the worst of tempers. His uncle had notified an ... ...ead, with the eyes up amid the puckered brows, and blowing one of his long nasal expirations, cried, ‘Here we are, in for another bout of argument.’ ‘...

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...lum. His utterance, affectedly pumped and hearty, and naturally vulgar and nasal, is ready and fluent: nature, a Board School education, and some kerb... ...ctice having made him a bit of an orator. His dialect, apart from its base nasal delivery, is not unlike that of smart London society in its tendency ... ...like that of smart London society in its tendency to replace diphthongs by vowels (sometimes rather prettily) and to shuffle all the traditional vowel... ...for o, i for a, a for u, and e for a, with this reservation, that when any vowel is fol- lowed by an r he signifies its presence, not by pronouncing t... ... never does under these circumstances, but by prolonging and modifyinq the vowel, sometimes even to the extreme degree of pronouncing it properly. As ... ...it. T o Felix Drinkwater also I owe some apology for implying that all his vowel pronunciations are unfashionable. They are very far from being so. As... ...mber that Drinkwater’s rs are abso- lutely unpronounced when they follow a vowel, though they 82 George Bernard Shaw modify the vowel very considerab...

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...lk must be belles-lettres. That is wi-ide.” Naumann’s pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically. Will did not half like it, bu... ...in a hand as gentlemanly as that of any viscount or bishop of the day: the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up... ..., a kind of thing”—here Mr. Trumbull dropped his voice and became slightly nasal, trimming his outlines with his left fin- ger—”that might not fall in...

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...signs, of points and strokes of all sorts, which were in fact to represent vowels. At this I wondered the more, as there were manifestly vowels in the... ...was wont to do in such cases, looked sharp out of the other, and said in a nasal voice, “Even in God I discover defects.” 160 Autobiography My Timoni... ...to face with my spiritual grandsire, and he bade me welcome with his weak, nasal voice, all the light of my mind and heart was extinguished at once, t...

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... of explanation from Edwards, the guttural gabble rattled up to the shrill vowels. Fleetwood’s endurance broke short. The packed small room, the caged... ...r our being saved by women from that horror—the join- ing the ranks of the nasal friars. By what women? Bacchante, clearly, if the wife we have is a N...

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...k must be belles lettres. That is wi ide.” Naumann’s pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically. Will did not half like it, bu... ..., a kind of thing”—here Mr. Trumbull dropped his voice and became slightly nasal, trimming his outlines with his left finger— “that might not fall in w...