Consonants

But I probably should have used the French spelling, since Marco Rubio R, FL credits the French with the successful campaign to remove the King of Conflicting Consonants from power in Libya before he could remove any more Libyans.

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In general, pronunciations get simpler over time: Consonants cluster, spellings are shortened, vowel pitches altered.

Exactly How Do You Pronounce Your Name Again, Miss....Miss? 2009

Consonants are given names according to the motions involved in making them.

Dyslexia And The New Science Of Reading 2008

Letters joyned together, just as it came into their Heads, and upon reading this Gibberish we have found that which the Men had writ, by the frequent encountering of rough Consonants, to sound like

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 2003

For, it is plain that Women in their manner of corrupting Words, do naturally discard the Consonants, as we do the Vowels.

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 2003

The Duch so of the other side with Consonants, that they cannot yeeld the sweete slyding, fit for a Verse.

Defence of Poesie 1992

Consonants constitute, then, what may be denominated the _Limitismus_

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

Consonants have, in like manner, a double aspect as Articulations or

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

_Sound_, the Positive factor or _Positismus_ of Language, we discover it to be composed of two constituents, _Vowels_ and _Consonants_.

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

Consonants are, on the contrary, those sounds which are produced by the crack of commencing or by obstructing, breaking, or cutting off the sounding breath, by completely or partially closing the organs of speech; as, for instance, by closing the lips, as when we pronounce

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