vowel
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The vowel sound doesn’t really exist in American English.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Its rebrand to Abrdn in 2021 was largely derided, with some saying it seemed like a typo, and others joking the firm had "irritable vowel syndrome".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
I mean, this is us lining up sine waves, “Minority Report”-style, and seeing where a vowel or a syllable is sort of falling out of place and giving the actor’s accent away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
While most humans would also fail to answer the Wason task correctly, it is unlikely that this would be because they didn't know what a vowel was.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
If he misses two days of kindergarten in a row, he’ll probably miss, like, a whole letter of the alphabet And what if it’s a vowel?
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
To go American, Mielewska said it's all about getting the Rs and the vowels right.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
With her original, breathy way of speaking, stressing odd syllables and stretching random vowels to the breaking point, her mad fashions and family of wigs, Moira is a sketch character with depth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
“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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Investment firm Abrdn will add the vowels back into its name after dropping them in a rebrand that was widely mocked.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
He spoke English with an Igbo accent so strong it decorated even the shortest words with extra vowels.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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