vowel
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“Non-rhotic speakers essentially say the ‘r’ sound only when it occurs before a vowel sound, but not when it occurs after a vowel,” Ms. Fridland says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Even the word, beginning and ending with similar vowel qualities, evinces monotony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024
Llama 2 70b, which answered correctly 10% of the time, mistook the letter K for a vowel and so answered incorrectly.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
Abrdn appointed branding agency Wolff Olins to advise on the change but has been on the receiving end of jibes ever since, with some suggesting the company suffers from "irritable vowel syndrome".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2024
The sound of the last word, the way I draw out the vowel, makes me hear how much I wanted that.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
To go American, Mielewska said it's all about getting the Rs and the vowels right.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
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 ● Nov. 21, 2025
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 ● Jul. 31, 2025
Investment firm Abrdn will add the vowels back into its name after dropping them in a rebrand that was widely mocked.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
I realized it wasn’t just my voice that had changed, but my pronunciation of the words themselves, the vowels marked by a clear Russianized dialect.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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