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vowels

  1. Letters of the alphabet that generally stand for sounds made with an open or partially open mouth: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y (as in style ). ( Compare consonants .)


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But the kids, with the exception of some open vowels here and there, sounded like pretty generic young Americans.

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“I also make audio files on Dropbox for each of them where I teach them their parts, such as how to get the notes and make the vowels.”

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A new version of the image was posted on Tuesday with one user joking that reinstating the vowels was responsible for the firm's share price rising.

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He’d make up fake s—, just syllables and vowels, like songwriters do.

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Her characters would crash down on consonants, as though landing a plane in the midst of an engine blowout or stretch out vowels in defiance of several laws of physics.

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