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  • A (ah) is the representative or pivotal Vowel; that one which embodies most completely the _Vowel Idea_.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Just before PIE proper, I theorize that a chain shift happened *ä *a *o which I often just refer to as Vowel Shift.

    Enticed by a drunken thought 2008

  • Here, I think we could interpret uples not as a genitive form (which should be *upil-s, by the way), but the directive case in -iś (uples *a *o) which I often just refer to as Vowel Shift.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • They are called the Vowel Line, and Orszagh is the old man at 24.

    USATODAY.com - Expansion Predators reach crossroads 2002

  • Bertilak insists they listen to his poem "Vowel", on the Great Vowel Shift-which in turn relies on your comprehension of the Professor Hanning's "Pronounced E's" slogan.

    PopMatters John L. Murphy 2010

  • Vowel – consonant – e syllable « General Literacy « Videos « Literacy News

    Vowel – consonant – e syllable « General Literacy « Videos « Literacy News 2010

  • We're going to do 'I'd Like to Buy a Vowel,' in honor of 'Wheel of Fortune'—songs that begin with vowels in our repertoire.

    All the Fun of the Wheel, Minus Vanna Nick Neyland 2011

  • Maybe a few people got upset about the 15th Century Great Vowel Shift, but were probably more upset about the Black Death, which is thought by some to have been a significant contributory factor.

    Two letters 2009

  • Maybe a few people got upset about the 15th Century Great Vowel Shift, but were probably more upset about the Black Death, which is thought by some to have been a significant contributory factor.

    5 posts from September 2009 2009

  • It was suggested that a poem I wrote called “One Vowel Trafficking” in dog barks up a tree at the apple left in it under a deerslim moon is about that, but by then, by 2005, when I wrote it, the subject of what to call it had gotten darker.

    Metaviews at Metazen Ann Bogle 2012

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