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vowel

[vou-uhl] / ˈvaʊ əl /




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Its opening poem, “Digging,” feels earthbound with its low-pitched vowels: “Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“The way he finishes notes, the way he slurs into notes, the way vowels sound, the choices of sounds he uses in the lyrics he writes—it’s just clever,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her delivery tends toward the soft and musical, and that she is wearing her own accent, which, to a Californian’s ear, plays charming variations on vowels, is all to the good.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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.”

From Los Angeles Times