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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

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

“Terry is one of the best players to play for Detroit,” athletic director Robert C. Vowels Jr. said in a written statement.

From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2016

The Latines have but Twelve Consonants, and Five Vowels, and h, but the Greek and Hebrew may furnish us with Letters.

From Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) by Abercrombie, David