Now, that's not terribly hard to do, considering that most English words have a consonant — vowel — consonant or vowel — consonant — vowel pattern.
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It's very tempting when you're starting out in puzzle construction to cram your grid with proper names, because they generally have a consonant-vowel-consonant etc.
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" Natürlich ," Claire said, the last, clustered consonant a whisper.
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There are a ridiculous number of options for the consonant.
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But Benjamin's passions were not especially consonant with the times.
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The single change in consonant doesn't begin to encompass the transformation.
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Preference towards more consonant intervals varied widely between the five groups.
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That consonant is tooth and jowl,With every letter, every vowel.
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The Tsimanes, meanwhile, rated consonant and dissonant music as equally pleasant.
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Hayes loves language; he loves the round vowel and crisp consonant.
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Each and every entry in this puzzle begins with a consonant.
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In nontheme news, I also liked SNAPCHAT and RUMOR HAS IT. ■ 1A: You'll see EDAM in crossword puzzles a lot because of the vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant pattern, but #TIL that it is a sweet-curd cheese.
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The trickiest problem for the BRIC concept may be its final consonant.
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What they've done is they've attached an inherent vowel to every consonant.
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One is clangorous, amorphous, psychedelic, the other consonant, neatly contained and semiclassical.
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The idea of starting every entry with a consonant came much later.
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A tendency to drop final vowels, and pronounce the preceding consonant, resembles Catalan.
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Oulipo will not allow you to post anything using that 2nd non-consonant.
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This was consonant, repetitious music, major and balladic in tone, but not form.
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V was used as both a consonant and a vowel in Latin, and so does not fit the pattern above either: it is a fricative (a consonant in which noise is produced by disrupting the airflow), named like a stop.
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They asked study participants to rate the pleasantness of both consonant and dissonant chords.
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"You get crazy consonant clusters [in Al Bhed] that are totally unpronounceable," says Paul.
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" I was like, "Whoa, this is so consonant, and so beautiful, and so colorful.
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Many Wandelweiser composers feel free to dwell on a sweetly consonant interval or chord.
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That was surprising to me, because it's got such a nice consonant-vowel pattern.
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People who pronounce consonant sounds with the deliberate care of someone filling in ScanTron bubbles.
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It's because of that consonant-vowel alternating pattern, which makes filling a puzzle much easier.
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A "SOFT" letter would be the G is "MIRAGE," and is most likely a consonant.
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Trump has now come to closure on a strategy that is largely consonant with this thinking.
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Bolivian city- and town-dwellers were also more into consonant music, but a bit less so.
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At night, I have a foam cleanser I love from a natural Canadian brand called Consonant.
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The consonant-heavy local languages initially forced them into mute professions such as wholesaling food and textiles.
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However, the researchers found that the Tsimane rated consonant and dissonant tones equally in terms of pleasantness.
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Lot of unusual vowel-consonant combos— nothing a little proofreading couldn't fix, but tricky all the same.
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Moving the tongue and pitch around produces vowels, while touching the lips and oral cavity produces consonant.
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In recent weeks, my swim inspiration has come from America's most famous, consonant-loving family: the Kardashians.
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People wanting a totally complimentary or consonant audio visual experience will probably be disappointed, annoyed, or agitated.
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She is a careful enunciator who takes time to pronounce distinctly every element of a consonant cluster.
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There's a similar thought process at 11D, another vowel — double consonant combo that makes _ _ _ EAR a word.
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Consonant with that caution, the N.F.L. has far fewer betting-related deals than other American sports leagues.
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Some of the sounds were combinations of notes that form a consonant chord, and some were dissonant chords.
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The American participants mostly reacted positively to the consonant music, with musicians reacting more positively than non-musicians.
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And during the work's final turn toward more consonant harmony, the players retained a crucial sense of gravity.
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But the mastery isn't in the computer; it's in materials that find so many ways to be consonant.
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The music is intricate and technically imposing, but suffused with consonant melody and aglow with a spark of connection.
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This system creates a conflict at Y, which is sometimes used as a vowel and sometimes as a consonant.
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In a half-filled puzzle, it's usually easy to tell whether a square contains a vowel or a consonant.
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In Western culture, consonant sounds are typically described as pleasant, while dissonant ones are tense and a little grating.
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If the consonant is "unvoiced" (like "f", "k" and "t"), then the –s is simply pronounced as an "s".
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Also, that particular set of vowels, and the ending in the hard consonant could be a contributing factor, absolutely.
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Singing for a man who seems categorically incapable of controlling his basest impulses hardly seems consonant with this objective.
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If I were to give something illegal and not in consonant with the law, then they must not obey.
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Withdrawal from Syria, along with partial withdrawal from Afghanistan, is consonant with the quasi-isolationism he's preached for decades.
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But its name is at least vaguely consonant with a slice of American-style men's wear branding in 2018.
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Sancho is a Xoloitzcuintli, a Mexican hairless breed revered by the Mayans and known for its consonant-heavy name.
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But I've seen a few signs that one consonant in that cluster is especially well positioned to gain ground.
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He muttered "virtual ghost, virtual pet, virtual ghost, virtual pet" to himself as if testing it, biting off each consonant.
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The Braves, for instance, sent lefty reliever Evan Rutckyj and his gratuitous consonant back to the Yankees on March 18.
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The fact that Paddock was divorced twice is certainly consonant with psychopathy; strings of broken relationships are typical among psychopaths.
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Helen's known for her sense of style -- so it's likely she saw the extraneous consonant as a glaring faux pas.
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Devendra Banhart almost whispers his lyrics, close enough to the microphone to express the shape and form of every consonant.
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The notes and their combinations are almost always consonant, or soon come to feel that way in their weightless coexistence.
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Furthermore, helping disaster victims is completely consonant with the immortal, life-affirming values that shaped and forged this great union.
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Consequently, Donovan's parts on songs like "Swoon," the first they made together, are clusters of notes that aren't obviously consonant.
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So founders took to dropping vowels, subbing a "y" for an "i" or adding an extra consonant to make it work.
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I can't remember which consonant I lost, but it seemed pretty vital to the delivery of breaking news at the time.
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Because different experiences can lead to different conclusions about what is consonant with our faith and how best to exercise it.
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Even better than anticipating an explanation from the Griffey deniers that is consonant with post-purge critical thinking—because, seriously, how?
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Inuktitut—which can use one compound word to say the equivalent of an English sentence—is built on consonant/vowel pairs.
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It's true that some of the revelations regarding this infidelity were not strictly consonant with the dignity of a future king.
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At least Obama's Russia policy was philosophically consonant with a longer liberal tradition of relative dovishness in U.S. relations with Moscow.
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He keeps piling on elements, so that an initially consonant texture turns discordant and competing rhythmic patterns build to a blur.
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There were glottal stops (as in "uh-oh"), and apostrophes that made a little popping noise out of the preceding consonant.
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It's why the bread and butter of pop music, which is engineered to be upbeat and danceable, is highly consonant major chords.
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King's name is broken down into phonemes: a barely decipherable vowel here, a consonant there, to be dispensed at widely spaced intervals.
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Even when thinking about the end of his life, he seemed to conceive of it as consonant with his work, a performance.
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That Anglo-Saxon meter should be so heavily alliterative, along with its consonant-heavy West Germanic cousins like Frisian, also makes sense.
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For example, high-frequency consonant sounds like "P", "T", and "K" are often spoken quickly, but are key to understanding what's being said.
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But it's consonant with Haneke's other films (especially 2005's Caché), as well as the way he treats each frame of this film.
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The blood pressure goal of less than 130/80 is consonant with new clinical practice guidelines that were released last year, Blyler said.
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Tragic was Camus's death at 46, crashing in a car not driven by him, but consonant with his near-constant laudable forward impetus.
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A "very, very modest" tax with revenue funneled back into oil and gas is perfectly consonant with anti-government, pro–fossil fuel Republican orthodoxy.
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Bandimic, whose percussive and consonant-heavy Wolof allows for a greater variety of rhythmic emphasis than English could, deals deftly with Lehman's jagged beats.
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Of their 6-month-old's most recent milestones, the couple says she has started eating solid foods, rolling over, making consonant sounds and teething.
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To politicize is to "politisai," and classic Singlish, with its lazy end-consonant and dirty pun: "Sai" is vulgar slang for feces in Hokkien.
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Under U.S. trade law, which is written to be consonant with our international agreements, the president can impose tariffs under certain narrowly defined conditions.
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Sometimes I rested my head on the chest or the stomach of the reader and could feel the resonance of each vowel and consonant.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO "Human," an electronic instrumental by the Swedish composer Tomas Nordmark, has a meditative, nearly ambient foundation: sustained, consonant tones like distant horns.
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The track pairs a cumbia rhythm with footwork's woozy yet agile approach to lowend, tying it all together with a narcotic, consonant-enunciating synth.
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Conservative opinions on clean energy are still mutable; this is an opportunity to visibly signal that clean energy support is perfectly consonant with conservative identity.
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In the fiercely argued and timely study " Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny " (Oxford), the philosopher Kate Manne makes a consonant argument about sexual violence.
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At least the Obama administration could privately justify a weak Syria policy as being consonant with their desire to strike a nuclear deal with Iran.
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On the Streets By Jia Tolentino I'm twenty-seven, and in some ways my life has been consonant with the experience of women throughout history.
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But it's also a perfectly legitimate and reasonable argument to make, and one that's perfectly consonant with Sanders's progressive principles, if not his "no negativity" persona.
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Most commentary has focused on the wider context: the other things Mr Trump said during the press conference, and whether his correction is consonant with them.
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Then, some syllable-final consonants and vowel+vowel/vowel+consonant combinations: ai (33) ei (o) ao (l) ou (!); an (0) en/-n (p) ang (;) eng/-ng (?).
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The United States of the prince's imagination is a familiar one, consonant with America's own dominant narrative about itself: full of possibility, innovation, freedom and adventure.
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Your job will be to solve both clues so that the consonant squares and the (slashed or circled) vowel squares make two different words or phrases.
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The L.G.B.T. consonant cluster was being elongated, litigated and traded in for more flexible banners like queer and genderqueer, and "binary" was suddenly a dirty word.
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Welcoming, not penalizing, these young people is consonant with our nation's foundational principles and the best traditions that have made America an exceptional and exemplary nation.
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In another tweet, she seemed to confirm that she'd be following in her sisters' footsteps and ditching the signature "K" names in favor of a different consonant.
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But for that very reason, if we build a monument that is consonant with those standards, then, reasonably, we expect it to be respected by future generations.
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To Western ears, dissonant chords tend to sound like they clash and may seem more downtrodden or tense, whereas consonant chords may seem more harmonic and upbeat.
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That Palhares would wind up in the hinterlands of Poland on a fight card bound to be filled out with mostly unrecognizable, consonant-heavy names isn't shocking.
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I am not proud of this fact and often try to swallow the vowel after the first consonant of the bad word has spilled from my lips.
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Drawing from the cadences and content of Hawaiian chants as well as the consonant twang of country music, the group combined historical reverence with show-business appeal.
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French words are connected by the liaison system, in which a word ending in a consonant links to the next one if it begins with a vowel.
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A couple of years ago, the most photographed landmark in this entire county might've been a local McDonald's that had lost a crucial consonant from its outdoor sign.
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And maybe Commercial Fiction is really great, or maybe it's great the way a Dorito is great, but Commercial Fiction is in some way consonant with the market.
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Over the last few months a slew of smart people have been sounding warning signals, identifying the half-dozen consonant factors bringing this epoch to an end: YES.
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And Warren has narrowly succeeded in crafting the prop she needs — something consonant with her "plans" schtick (which Sanders's purposeful vagueness would not be) that also polls well.
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Placed between interactive electronics and a pair of laptops, this visionary singer and composer produced a rushing stream of looped and layered vocals, often falling into consonant harmonies.
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But when I interviewed Jessye Norman in 2009, I was struck by the beauty of her diction: each consonant polished, each word uttered in a resonant, inky tone.
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LARAAJI'S SLEEP CONCERT Laraaji favors soothing, tinkly sounds — zithers, thumb piano, little bells — and melodies hinting at ancient folk tunes, all growing more consonant with loops and echoes.
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I'm, uhhhh, not always in perfect consonant agreement with Sam Altman, but he pretty much nailed this one: Most careers turn into sales jobs when you get senior enough.
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In contrast to Westerners, who rated the consonant sounds as pleasant and the dissonant sounds as unpleasant, the Tsimane participants rated the two classes of sounds as equally pleasant.
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The technology that Casio came up with for some of its earliest keyboards became known as vowel-consonant synthesis, for the similarities the company's approach had to human speech.
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The U.S. has recently begun modernizing its nuclear weapons consonant with President Obama's pledge to do so in return for adoption of the New Strategic Arms Reduction (START) Treaty.
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But if everyone with a "D" or an "R" next to their name is defined as "evil" because of their consonant, we can never collectively judge behavior as wrong.
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Tiles connect when the character on them matches an adjacent tile in one of two ways: either they have the same starting consonant sound or the same vowel sound.
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Tiles connect when the character on them matches an adjacent tile in one of two ways: either they have the same starting consonant sound or the same vowel sound.
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That said, the thing I like most about the upper-left is perhaps the intersection of the consonant-free entries OUI OUI and EIEIO — how often does that happen?
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Consonant with these efforts, university curricula are being rewritten to address the urgent need to supplant traditional liberal education (read "white") in favor of a more identity-centric pedagogy.
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"It's very hard to recognize a final consonant that doesn't use any lip articulation (much harder than recognizing an initial one) and that's hard enough," Napoli said in an email.
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Others are consonant with her colorful clown series and darker "Horror" pictures, and some disjunctive digital additions even recall the prostheses of her fierce "Sex Pictures" of the early 1990s.
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It's a poetic, creative rejoinder consonant with its unsubtle times, an appropriately monumental intervention in the shrieking wall-to-wall news coverage of the shrieking president shrieking about his wall.
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We have to imagine a different kind of politics, a politics that's consonant with the kind of world we aspire to live in for our children and our children's children.
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It was named for Hawaiian retunings of the guitar, which lowered the pitch of some strings — by loosening or slackening them — to produce consonant open chords, bringing out the instrument's resonance.
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The road to a consonant cluster that's now taken for granted — and that's grown longer, with a Q or more added, depending on who's doing the clustering — was a rocky one.
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"It is, therefore, necessary to examine whether the release of this biopic after the announcement of elections ... is consonant with the principles of a free and fair election," the letter read.
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I felt that many of the social teachings that I was imbibing were either very much consonant with what I believed or led on to what I was coming to believe.
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Even though the music was very different in many ways from Western music, the Americans responded positively to Tsimane music that had been altered to display consonant characteristics, which is pretty interesting.
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Then, the work felt consonant with Ono's universalist aesthetic: it was not some specific, urgent suture; there was no promise of an instant fix for some irremediable rent in a social fabric.
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But the Pontiff's actions are consonant with the Francis that people have come to know and love: He is spontaneous, motivated by joy, and a man of action as well as word.
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In a clip from the episode, White, 62, said the wheel was "heavy" after giving it a whirl to determine the value of a consonant in the last puzzle of the night.
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A venture into Scots Gaelic, which has only thirteen consonants to spell thirty consonant sounds, gives way to chapters on diacritics; diminutives and augmentatives in Italian; and the gender-neutral Swedish pronoun hen .
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"The simple mechanics of moving from a nasal sound ('m' or 'n') to a non-nasal one can make a consonant pop up in between" — in this case, the "p" sound we hear.
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But even with all these differences, neuroscientists have noticed there's something pretty much everyone agrees on, musically: Some chords sound good—they're consonant—and other notes grate when they're played at the same time.
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Lloyd Swanton, on bass, used plucking, bowing and looping to establish the foundations of consonant harmonies; it was an event when, about 17 minutes into the piece, the chord shifted from major to minor.
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Building privacy deep into a contact-tracing system, to the maximum extent consonant with its efficacy, is especially important when we consider its potential usage in authoritarian nations who might demand the raw data.
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A deeply flawed white male protagonist is revealed to have hidden depths; depths more than likely consonant with qualities the movie's white male writer-director — in this case, Richard Bates Jr. — finds in himself.
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"We would have loved to perform at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a community that in many ways is consonant with our own San Francisco Bay Area," he said in a statement.
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As important as confessional privilege is to some clergy members and religious organizations, they need to finally realize that their mission is poisoned as long as it is consonant with the sexual abuse of children.
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MIT assistant professor Josh McDermott and Brandies professor Ricardo Godoy performed a variety of experiments on members of the Tsimane tribe to see if they had any sort of preference for consonant chords over dissonant ones.
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Jesus was Jewish, of course, and exorcisms in the Gospels (such when he drives demons into a herd of pigs) are consonant with the practices of other messianic groups of the era, such as the Essenes.
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G.B.T.Q.," pledged to protect those of us represented by that consonant cluster and, upon hearing applause, added, "I have to say, as a Republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said.
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Was quite glad to get AIRBNB with its lovely consonant pileup in the bottom right hand corner — I think it will be a New York Times debut unless someone beats me to it in the next few days.
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It's not conclusive evidence, but it is consistent with the idea that these many-consonant patterns are something English speakers have come to associate with profanity in general, so it shows up when they are creating invented languages.
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"The Holy See is conscious that, from the examination of the facts and of the circumstances, it may emerge that choices were taken that would not be consonant with a contemporary approach to such issues," the statement said.
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Next up was Gelsey Bell, with a performance that included tunes built on extended rolled-consonant sounds — sung hard into a wall, producing strange acoustical beats — and also some protest songs written for a gleaming new vocal trio.
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Mr. Moore's accusers kept silent for years for fear of what's happening now: their past relationships, family, friends, finances, political affiliations and every vowel and consonant of their stories being mined in a partisan effort to discredit them.
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Then there's John's choice of harmonies: He will use very close chords together, which are particularly dissonant, but he will also use very consonant chords that are extremely familiar, and seem to be quite old in this context.
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The debates sometimes appeared academic, amid copious talk about sports in a state where elementary students dress in jerseys and can rattle off the letters of the consonant-rich surname of the men's basketball coach at Duke University (Krzyzewski).
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Now it seems I can't go a week without seeing a handful of consonant-mad brands, like MNDFL, a meditation studio with a branch in my Brooklyn neighborhood; or WTHN, which offers "a brand-new acupuncture experience"; or Mdrn.
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Personally, I have never used the word TALCS as a verb ("I change the diaper, but he TALCS the baby's behind" sounds a bit odd to me), but I'll go along with the fact that it's a thing. CONSONANT.
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