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“The way he finishes notes, the way he slurs into notes, the way vowels sound, the choices of sounds he uses in the lyrics he writes—it’s just clever,” he said.

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.

But the kids, with the exception of some open vowels here and there, sounded like pretty generic young Americans.

“I also make audio files on Dropbox for each of them where I teach them their parts, such as how to get the notes and make the vowels.”

Investment firm Abrdn will add the vowels back into its name after dropping them in a rebrand that was widely mocked.