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• n  a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
• n  a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel

• The other high-frequency plaintext vowels, a, i and o, tend to avoid one another.
• Some have begun discouraging problem commenters by simply removing the vowels from their posts, a process known as disemvoweling.
• Word on the excessive buying of vowels.

• vowel sound

• consonant

News & Articles

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• Submit It In Reduplicate
  Did you know Ke$ha's song "Tik Tok" demonstrates a linguistic oddity? And we're not talking about her spelling. "Reduplicated" words contain repeated syllables, but with different vowel sounds. Puzzle guru Art Chung leads contestants in a game full of reduplicated word pairs.
  June 14, 2013 - NPR
• For Your I's Only
  All eyes are on the players in this final round, led by puzzle guru Art Chung. Play along, and try to guess the words, phrases or proper nouns in which "i" is the only vowel. "I, I," Captain!
  June 14, 2013 - NPR

Quotes

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• Pat Sajak in Baltimore Sun
  As the straight-faced sheriff ticked off the names of the suspects, Sajak called out, "I'd like to buy a vowel" and "Tell them what they've won, Ron."
• Bill Cosby in Huffington Post (blog)
  Comedian and father Bill Cosby said, "Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry."
• Stephen Colbert in New York Times
  Congressman,Mr. Colbert said, "your name doesn't end in a vowel."