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  • “How now brown cow” b a frase uzed in deh ello kew shun classes to teeching deh rownded vowell sowndz.

    How now? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Who are your favourite prose writers? timothy findley, sarah vowell, i can't remember her name but she wrote "We So Seldom Look on Love" and the woman who wrote, "Here's your hat, what's your hurry?"

    mitten Diary Entry mitten 2002

  • And the vowell is alwayes more easily deliuered then the consonant: and of consonants, the liquide more than the mute, & a single consonant more then a double, and one more then twayne coupled together: all which points were obserued by the Greekes and Latines, and allowed for _maximes_ in versifying.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • And the vowell is alwayes more easily deliuered then the consonant: and of consonants, the liquide more then the mute, & a single consonant more then a double, and one more then twayne coupled together: all which points were obserued by the Greekes and Latines, and allowed for maximes in versifying.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • Guitar Hero: Metallica skims a (sometimes) vowell from Lynyrd Skynyrd's name on the video game's cover art,

    unknown title 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; featured-posts = 1; living = 1; politics = 1; nickname = caryn-james; entry_id = 139266; anti-intelectuals = 1; barack-obama = 1; election-2008 = 1; john-mccain = 1; language = 1; mccain = 1; palin = 1; political-rhetoric = 1; sarah-vowell = 1; socialists = 1; speech = 1; wordy-shipmates = 1",

    Caryn James: On Wordiness, Godliness and Truthiness: The McCain-Palin Assault on Language 2008

  • [_co-nque ` ri-ng_] the foote of [_Amphibrachus_] of a short a long and a short by this word [_re ` me-mbe ` r_] if a vowell follow.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • HPConfig. blog_id = 0; var ads_page_type = 'bpage'; var zone_info = "huffpost. politics/blog; featured-posts = 1; living = 1; politics = 1; nickname = caryn-james; entry_id = 139266; anti-intelectuals = 1; barack-obama = 1; election-2008 = 1; john-mccain = 1; language = 1; mccain = 1; palin = 1; political-rhetoric = 1; sarah-vowell = 1; socialists = 1; speech = 1; wordy-shipmates = 1"; if (top!

    Caryn James: On Wordiness, Godliness and Truthiness: The McCain-Palin Assault on Language 2008

  • The foote [Bacchius] of a short and two long by this word [resistance] the foote [Antibachius] of two long and a short by this word [example] the foote [Amphimacer] of a long a short & a long by this word [conquering] the foote of [Amphibrachus] of a short a long and a short by this word [remember] if a vowell follow.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

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