If you took out every consonant from our alphabet, we would have fewer words to use. From LearnThat.org.
In monosyllables a single vowel before a single consonant is short; as stag, frog. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
That's because English favors closed syllables (ending in consonant) while French prefers open syllables (ending in a vowel). From Wordnik.com. [l'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day] Reference
He might well be called the consonant-using animal. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
The consonant is the distinguishing element of human speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
A consonant is a letter which cannot be distinctly sounded without a vowel. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
The 25th letter, "y", is classified as a consonant - sometimes classified as a semi-vowel. From Wordnik.com. [Lingering over lingerie?] Reference
But if the voice is held back or obstructed by the palate, tongue, teeth, or lips, one kind of the sounds called consonant sounds is made. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
If the breath is driven out without voice, and is held back by these same parts of the mouth, the other kind of consonant sounds is formed. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
“A consonant is a letter in the alphabet that isn’t a vowel,” he said helpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Having Versus Eating Cake] Reference
These cognitions are "consonant," meaning that they are related and that one follows from the other. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Corresponding and consonant to this is the answer of. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
You know a spoonerism is when interchange consonant sounds. From Wordnik.com. [You Have The Right Of Way] Reference
What railway porters expect, a consonant and a kind of boat?. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
There is nothing that a consonant cannot dangle from a vowel. From Wordnik.com. [Fable Of The Alicanto] Reference
I say, lisping the initial consonant through my missing top incisors. From Wordnik.com. [Armitage Shanks Checks Into The Hyatt] Reference
Y preceded by a consonant is changed to ies in the plural; as bounty, bounties. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Final e of a primitive word is retained on taking a suffix beginning with a consonant. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
It is a question, rather, as to which view is more consonant with reason and Scripture. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Not richly enough for her, I know, but her means allow her to do without the supporting consonant. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The character of some of the Egyptian laws was quite consonant with the notions of a primitive age. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
There's a consonant chord and a dissonant chord going on at the same time, one right after the other. From Wordnik.com. ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference
Whether he meant thereby to indicate shortness of the vowel or length of the consonant is disputed. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference
Thus he systematically doubled a consonant after a short vowel in a closed syllable, so tunnderrstanndenn 109. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference
And you know spoonerisms, where you interchange the initial consonant sounds of two words to get two new words. From Wordnik.com. [Pearls Of Wisdom] Reference
And it did involve spoonerisms where you interchange the initial consonant sounds of two words to get two new words. From Wordnik.com. [Master Of Ceremonies] Reference
(Soundbite of music from "Babel") TRUDEAU: Unlike a minimalist piece, this will end in a fairly consonant amen sort of sound. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar-Nominated Scores: 'Babel,' 'The Queen'] Reference
As a TV-anchor magnet, suburban-school killers easily outpace a complicated conflict in a consonant-ridden corner of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Loitering On The Dark Side] Reference
And it's exciting to me to use more, you know, pretty words that have a lot of nice alliterative and consonant qualities to them. From Wordnik.com. [Colin Meloy: '10-Dollar Words' For A Cause] Reference
Was he of that grade in society in which the natural offences are or are not consonant to, or harmonious with, outrages upon stocks?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The reader will quickly notice that the letter 'j' does not appear in the texts, rather 'i' functions either as a vowel or a consonant. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
In monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable, a final consonant after a single vowel doubles before a suffix beginning with. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
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