Studies commonly cite more than 100 consonants, and some say there are as many as 164 consonants and 44 vowels.
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Your favorite four-letter words are for the most part examples of this: consonants at the beginning—like fu, bu, or cu—and consonants at the end, like ck, ch, or nt.
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When you first enter the app, you're taken through three to four videos about your language of choice's alphabet, its consonants and vowels, and the spelling rules that produce those consonants and vowels.
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Listening to Rich's vowels and consonants, we hear her ethics.
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Her words are unfamiliar, a little guttural, the consonants chewy.
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I wanted ones where the opening consonants didn't have any repeats.
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Vowels are important to speech, for example, but so are consonants.
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That's why alternating consonants and vowels as much as possible is useful.
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"Frak" in Battlestar Galactica, or "frell" in Farscape—they have so many consonants.
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"Stop" consonants—those that stop the airflow entirely—get an ee sound after them.
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Listen to her long vowels and keen consonants; listen to the leitmotif of pain.
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The volume grows until all that's heard is the hard "S" of her consonants.
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The Greeks also added consonants for sounds they needed that the Phoenicians didn't have.
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Combining these basic click types with other sounds yields about 43 distinct click consonants.
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He loved the sound of words, the music of vowels and consonants jostling each other.
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SZA's voice is a vibrant thing: pained, nasal, layered, gulping down consonants, seeming to glow.
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Like the guileful letter Y itself, men are asked to represent consonants and then vowels.
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Swear-words in English tend to be short with hard-sounding consonants, especially k and g.
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Just scan each of those rows to see that the only consonants are in alphabetical order.
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What if I made a puzzle whose theme entries had the same consonants but different vowels?
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In fact, I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't know that voiceless consonants had a name.
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MCDLTS, with all its consonants, was a big help is filling that section … thank you McDonalds.
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Two, he holds the NHL record for longest name made up entirely of alternating consonants and vowels.
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He has a heavy Scouse accent: his consonants are breathy, and his vowels are long and inquisitive.
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"Find the rhythm and percussion — play with the musicality, and enunciate on the consonants," Ms. Taymor said.
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This, coupled with the frequent "swallowing" of consonants, can give the Beijing vernacular a punchy, jocular feel.
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I kept a list of my datelines and it is long, with many consonants in unusual places.
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RSVPED and NBA TEAM, with their consecutive consonants both got me out of trouble in the grid.
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The Swedish names of Ikea products can be tricky to pronounce, what with their umlauts and silent consonants.
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Often Future swallows whole consonants, whole syllables, leaving only a slimy trail of Auto-Tune in his wake.
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For the opening round, students Sarah and Mariam were tasked with naming countries that end in two consonants.
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It's a banger the way that a club hit bangs, driven by the thud, thud, thud of consonants.
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Sarandon has Davis's aggressive shuffling walk down, as well as the downturned mouth, the biting-off of consonants.
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Vera's other roommate, Anna Mae (Carra Patterson), softens her consonants and opens her vowels and passes as Brazilian.
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Still, a few patterns emerge: "archrival" looks bad because of the ungainly "rchr" series of consonants in the middle.
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Is this what we have come to — rationing reproductive health services based the number of consonants in state names?
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The singers have to keep the beat, modulate volume, match vowels, and articulate consonants in perfect synch or sequence.
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His Brits acceptance speech actually shows very little accent change within the nuts and bolts of vowels and consonants themselves.
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The Greeks' genius was to take the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted of twenty-two consonants, and add vowels to it.
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Even Ms. Errico, no emotional slouch, had trouble with the spitfire anger of "Everybody Says Don't," with its exploding consonants.
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He erodes consonants, turns simple vowels into unpredictable diphthongs, and takes each new sentence as an opportunity for rococo improvisation.
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They often evoke obscure primordial rituals, with vowels and consonants passing around the ensemble in spontaneous-seeming fits and starts.
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In it, a large 33D "A" appears from a green pyramid, small white consonants hover around it, then all goes black.
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Consonants soften from stops (where the airflow is blocked completely) to fricatives (where the air is merely slowed in the mouth).
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Bergen: English profane words tend to be words that use closed syllables, that is, syllables that have consonants at the end.
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The words were transcribed using a sort of universal alphabet that reduced all sounds to 34 distinct consonants and 7 vowels.
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Katharine Hepburn, helplessly luminous, plays Mary with the clipped consonants, straight-backed posture and limited emotional range of a Boston debutante.
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Humid, hot climates swallow consonants while letting long vowels glide by, smoothing angular English into the drawl of the Southern United States.
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Removed from all context and understanding, speech — a constellation of rhythm and melody, resonant vowels and percussive consonants — begins to resemble music.
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"When I come on Fallon, it will be like Babe Ruth," he said, enunciating consonants as if he were angry with them.
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They sound like popping consonants which are found in human languages; they're found in Ethiopia and a lot of Native American languages.
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Keep chipping away at it, and try to focus on solving the squares that contain the consonants in the split theme entries.
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Like her, Jessica speaks with an accent—flattened "R"s, tightened "O"s, elided consonants—and has a predilection for dropping articles.
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He painstakingly enunciates the consonants L.G.B.T.Q. in his convention speech, then ignores the L.G.B.T.Q.-hostile records of people he's pulling into his cabinet.
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"She had this tremendous vibrato, that wonderful way of not pronouncing her consonants — she made a career out of not pronouncing them," he said.
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We write "co-operate" and "re-elect" for an analogous reason: this time breaking up vowels rather than consonants that would be awkward together.
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The fake Legend's consonants also contain sounds that don't naturally occur when they are voiced by a human, such as odd clicks, Khoury says.
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I love the string of consonants in EGG MCMUFFIN, so I put that in the center and worked in the two long down answers.
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Meanwhile Schwitters's Ur-sounds have inspired vocal writing full of odd gasps, shrieks and consonants that take on a grotesque life of their own.
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Mr. Gagliardo and Ms. Burnikel tell us straight out that the consonants in rows three, six and nine are ALPHABETIZed, and indeed they are.
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No one could pronounce a first name bristling with consonants or a surname with three Z's, so he shortened his name to Ladis Kristof.
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"A t-tube for the car" might fall in this category because the answer, ATTIRE, doesn't have to do with repeated consonants or vehicles.
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Some linguists think that is how click consonants found their way into Bantu speech: in words borrowed from Khoisan languages, which use clicks extensively.
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Her team had worked to smooth out the articulation, clear up consonants and vowels, and polish the voices until they were clear and relatively melodic.
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"No sooner said than done," is a poor rendering into English of the excellent Italian phrase "Detto fatto," with its declarative immediacy and percussive consonants.
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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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These images made me literally tremble with lust and I would frantically rub myself while I one-handed typed my long strings of consonants in response.
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Another technique is to go through the lines emphasizing the emotion in the vowels and then again focusing just on the cerebral crispness of the consonants.
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Sheila Michaels, who half a century ago, wielding two consonants and a period, changed the way modern women are addressed, died on June 21969 in Manhattan.
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In the end, then, Ms. Michaels leaves a legacy both minute and momentous: two consonants and a small dot — three characters that forever changed English discourse.
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As sounds at those frequencies fade, speech becomes harder to understand, because consonants are pitched higher than vowels and when they disappear sentences turn to mush.
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Read a random string of consonants and vowels on one line, then repeat the process with the line below until you can't make out the letters anymore.
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How pissed off does the team mate of the girl on #Pointless who just gave 'Paris' as an answer for a country ending in 2 consonants look?
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"… From some experimentation, this bug seemed to occur for any pair of Telugu consonants with a vowel, as long as the vowel is not ై (ai)," he wrote.
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For their part, the Western allies, Britain and France, portrayed Poland as a hopeless cause to justify their defence of their ally "using vowels and consonants alone".
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They don't ... It doesn't look wrong, the vowels and the consonants and all the sort of shapes of the mouth, it completely fits, which was quite extraordinary.
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But while L.G.B.T. spells out those differences, it also mashes everything together in a manner that deprives some of the consonants of their particular history and legacy.
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Though they understand each other, Martín said that Sales's Mam sounds more like French—airy, with swallowed consonants—while his is more like Portuguese—choppy and guttural.
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Each painting is on a square panel, with those representing consonants measuring 5 x 5 inches, while the five vowels are twice as large, at 10 x 10.
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Current voice-recognition software, he explained, draws from a training database of sounds and uses statistical modeling to match audio with the understanding of vowels, consonants and words.
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Current voice recognition software, he explained, draws from a training database of sounds and uses statistical modeling to match audio with the understanding of vowels, consonants and words.
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Human beings predominantly communicate via speech and this frequency range is crucial for listening to various speech sounds, especially the consonants which carry the bulk of the speech information.
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White Rex's Tumblr features graphics depicting the consonants in White Rex as standing for "White Heterosexual Reactionary Xenophobe"; another shows a key-ring incorporating a barely-disguised swastika design.
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It's often, in fact, the sole element, no matter how hard you're trying, at a micro level, to hold on for dear life to your original vowels and consonants.
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Frank Bruni At this point the consonants are so tightly fused it's as if they were always and inevitably so: L.G.B.T. But just a decade ago, the T teetered.
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Despite some high points, there was too much of both, with an especially dispiriting effort by Yann Boudaud, who went to battle with Racine's consonants in his role as Agamemnon.
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FF????. We know that the first letter must be a vowel, for no consonants can precede two Fs, and that the fourth letter is most likely a vowel as well.
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It's not going to hurt anyone to have a little URINE or ENEMA in our puzzles … and it's certainly going to help constructors, because those words alternate consonants and vowels.
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Looking at the twenty-six paintings stretched across the wall reveals the alphabet's striking symmetry, starting off with two groups of three consonants and finishing up with three groups of five.
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And when English speakers make up new languages, like [Game of Thrones'] Dothraki, for instance, there tend to be a lot more consonants in those made-up swear words ("graddakh"), too.
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Human speech involves all sorts of wacky noises, from the ubiquitous "m" and "a" sounds found in virtually all languages to the rare click consonants expressed in some South African dialects.
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These sounds, which are now present in the vast majority of all human languages, are what linguists call labiodental consonants—sounds produced by pressing our upper teeth to our lower lip.
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When I spoke, I tried to approximate the speech patterns of my co-workers—the softened consonants and the dropped articles—lest I reveal myself for the outsider that I was.
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Memorize what Berry refers to as the lip reader's alphabet, which mostly consists of clusters of consonants that look the same on the lips (linguists call such a group a "viseme").
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In Khoisan languages, word lengths are limited to one or two syllables, so one theory holds that a large number of consonants and vowels became necessary to express an expansive vocabulary.
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Pencil in hand, they chanted the 14 consonants and 10 vowels of the Korean alphabet as their teacher, Jo Yoon-jeong, 24, wrote them one by one on the white board.
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The Spanish word "sicario," usually translated as hit man or contract killer, has an accidental resemblance to the word samurai — the same first letter, the same pattern of consonants and vowels.
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For 21983 years, Vanna White has sashayed back and forth across the "Wheel of Fortune" stage, revealing tens of thousands of consonants and vowels and making five-inch heels look easy.
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Forward rather than circular, the music is constantly on its feet, hopping from one pitched percussion device to another as Banks mimics the effect in a rapid-fire spew of guttural consonants.
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The quick pitch changes in O'Riordan's yodel, paired with the exaggerated way that she forms her vowels and consonants, set her voice squarely in the sean-nós style of traditional Irish folksinging.
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It was not enough to grasp his literal meaning, she argued; one had to feel his vowels and consonants and to appreciate the beats of the iambic pentameter in which he wrote.
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The tendency to pronounce final consonants without vibrating the vocal cords, made famous by the "Saturday Night Live" skit "Bill Swerski's Superfans" and its paeans to "da Bearsss" (rather than "da Bearzzz").
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So Hockett suggested that those labiodental consonants must have been a recent addition to human speech, appearing in conjunction with access to softer foods as people had the ability to mill grain.
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According to the textual analysis published by Segal and his colleague, Emmanuel Tov, today in the journal Textus, there are 18 lines of text in each column, containing all consonants and no vowels.
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The Master of Philosophy (Francis Leplay) ends up explaining how to pronounce vowels and consonants in a riotous scene that should haunt every American who has ever struggled with the French "u" sound.
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Mr. Obama received a rapturous reception from the heavily black audience, lapsing into a familiar campaign cadence of slang and dropped consonants as he reveled in the cheers and whoops of his supporters.
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N/uu is comprised of five vowel-like qualities, and its consonants are primarily clicks (the "|" or "/" indicates a click); the tongue hits the roof of the mouth with a thick, vibratory sound.
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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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Noticing you could lay the former and top of the latter in a way that staggers the vowels and consonants nicely, I set out to build a grid with these two seed answers.
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Ekmeles opened with Mr. Sciarrino's "3 Canti Senza Pietre" (1999), hushed settings of fragments about knowledge and uncertainty in which the words seem to break up into denuded consonants and wordless yelps and sighs.
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Realising that classic Hollywood films and the Australian love of barely-enunciated consonants and rude words, are the perfect match, he's re-captioned some classic lines from the silver screen with an Aussie edge.
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Afsluitdijk is more than just a bunch of consonants strung together, it's a 20-mile dam in the Netherlands and the location of this futuristic and energy-saving installation by Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde.
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Mr Zavascki became a household name—in spite of the string of consonants inherited from his Polish forebears—because he oversaw investigations into the corruption scandal centred on Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company.
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The consonants are interpreted as red, orange, yellow, green, or blue geometric shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, or circles) against a vibrant field of gray, which is a mixture of the three primary colors.
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Another tell that you're hearing a bot is the sound of consonants, particularly fricatives such as "f" or "v" or "s" made by narrowing your airway such that the friction of moving air becomes audible.
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Not Shaving French women accept that body hair is a natural part of life, just like a boss unzipping his pants in the office, or the refusal to pronounce consonants at the end of words.
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At times she would actually substitute nonsense syllables for a song's text, when she appeared to feel that the words as written, with their congestion of consonants, would impede the flow of pure, vowelly sound.
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I liked the fact that the consonants B, C, D, F, G, H and J were evenly spaced and thought it would be incredible, albeit nearly impossible, to do that through the rest of the grid.
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Compare their two recordings of Schubert's "Die Schöne Müllerin," separated by a decade and a half: Mr. Gerhaher's recent approach is far more analytical — the voice more hollow, the vowels infinitely pointed, the consonants fanatically sharp.
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MyFirstBananagrams—which comes in a less-ripened green banana pouch—features special double letter tiles with certain vowels and consonants already grouped together making it slightly easier for kids to spell words with the tiles they've drawn.
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The En-Gedi's scroll's writings are nearly 100 percent identical to the medieval texts, both in consonants and in paragraph divisions, suggesting that copies of the book of Leviticus did not differ much over thousands of years.
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We were perfect replicas of one another, dressed in khakis, hair blow-dried, walking around doing the same vocal warmups that we had been taught: B-B-B-B, T-T-T-T —no softened consonants here.
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Her jaw thrust forward like a prow, her elfin eyes belying her regal bearing, her wide-screen mouth wrapping itself around those slashing, implacable consonants — they're all exactly as you remember them and want them to be.
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