Consonants
[kɔnsənənts]
Examples
- Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The great defect of that instrument was the rendering of the overtones in music, and the hissing consonants in speech. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had not even remembered that it was low-pitched, with a faint roughness on the consonants. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It consisted at first of consonants, and the Greeks added the vowels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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