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Vowels were in the main not written as letters, but added as diacritical marks as in Arabic.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022

“Some people will think: ‘We should use the time,’ and a lot of them experience disappointment that they haven’t,” says Vowels.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2021

Vowels are stretched for whooshing emphasis; consonants are crashed upon with the force of a speeding car against a highway divider.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

Vowels and consonants drag on longer than necessary for us to understand them.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2016

When they are us'd but as two Syllables they suffer an Elision of one of their Vowels, and are generally written thus, Di'mond, Vi'let, &c.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Bysshe, Edward