Consonants

There is the requirement that the line should be a pleasant variation from its predecessor; that the syntax should fit naturally into the space to be filled; that the stresses of the line should support the meaning; and when all these requirements are fulfilled it would be worth considering whether certain consonants or clusters of sounds which are thought cacophonous may be rearranged ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though I'd still argue that three consonants is not a name, my opinion of McG as a filmmaker is steadily rising. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Take out all the consonants from the word 'Yahweh'. ❋ Jerine (2006)

This petition requests the removal of this foul assemblage of vowels and consonants from the English language. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The tongue is so serviceable a member (taking all sorts of shapes, just as is wanted), ” the teeth, the lips, the roof of the mouth, all ready to help, and so heap up the sound of the voice into the solid bits which we call consonants, and make room for the curiously shaped breathings which we call vowels! ❋ Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 (1903)

If your face is half dissolved away like Two Face, you aren’t going to pronounce certain consonants well. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, paying attention to quantity distinctions in Italian consonants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Hornets brought the biggest name of the tournament - by vowels and consonants, that is - and hoped to set the tone defensively behind shot blocker Grlenntys Chief Kickingstallionsims Jr., a 7-foot-1 center whose reach is as long as his name. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Guilt by surname consonants is an unusual reason to call someone to defend their patriotism. ❋ Jacqueline T Lynch (2008)

All the consonants are a variant of D, but the vowels were unmistakeable. ❋ Ailbhe (2005)

Or else we put in the wrong consonants, which is shown by the fact that different nations assign different consonantal sounds to the same bird. ❋ Simeon Strunsky (1913)

If the student attempts to sing the consonants, that is, to prolong them he is sure to make his throat rigid and the pure singing tone at once disappears. ❋ Unknown (1899)

German damn that can find expression in German consonants. ❋ Unknown (1891)

"The articulate sounds called consonants are sounds produced by the vibrations of certain easily movable portions of the mouth and throat; and they have a different sound according as they are accompanied by voice or not" (Hermann). ❋ Unknown (1889)

This leads us directly to a consideration of the laws of counterpoint and fugue, laws that have remained practically unchanged up to the present, with the one difference that, instead of being restricted to the meagre material of the so-called consonants, the growing use of what were once called dissonant chords, such as the dominant seventh, ninth, diminished seventh, and latterly the so-called altered chords, has brought new riches to the art. ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)

His object should be to use them adequately to form vowels and consonants -- in other words, in the formation, not the spoiling, of words, as is so often the case. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

On the left are the sounds or syllables indicated by one letter; on the right, the same indicated by more than one letter; and it is to be borne in mind that the child needs to pronounce only fourteen of the nineteen so-called consonants of the German alphabet in order to master the remaining five also; for ❋ William T. Preyer (1869)

"I have never felt a [breeze] so strong. It reminds me pleasantly of spring. The air [doth] [sweetly] sing." "What 'da fuck you talkin' bout?! I don't wanna here 'dat consonance shit." ❋ D-Vo (2006)

Consonants ❋ _The Secret_ (2019)

[Sal]: Yo, I just had [a foot long] conson, man was that thing big, but I still managed [a 3] bite. ❋ Sidney Ponson (2008)

Dude: Hey man, check out all these words with double [consonants]! Daddy, little, [saggy], [sloppy]! Man: Wow that's so cool ❋ BingBongMcFiddles (2019)

Hey alright! I got SHA*E on my first guess! So it’s gotta be SHADE…nope. Okay, SHAPE!….hmm, SHAME? GODDAMN IT! [Here we go], [SHALE]! FUCK. Last guess….SHARE??? It’s fucking SHAKE?? ! Fell to my death off the [consonant cliff]!!! ❋ PhatDaddyRed (2022)

"Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft is really a [consonant Gangbang], don't you think?" (German for [Danube] shipping electricity main operations facility construction [administrator's] society) ❋ Hafu Wasabi (2023)

After [golf], David went for a drink in the [cub] [bar]. ❋ Phil Rayner (2004)

Weary girl, texting a pleasant-natured willing-to-help-anyone-out dude who's frequently assisted her in the past: Any chance you could come over and help me move this big heavy couch so that I can vacuum the floor underneath it? Dude: Ummmm... [three consonants and a dozen vowels]. Girl: "Sleeeeeepeeeeee"??? Dude: Sumpin' like dat... had a long day. [Mebbe] first --- yawwwwwn --- first thing tomorrow morning? Gimme a wake-up call when you're [up and about]? Girl: Sounds good. And of course I'll need a shower after I finish all da dusty sweeping and vacuuming, so I'll let you take it with me, as an extra incentive and thank-you gesture for your help. Dude: Nice. Will you also let me crawl in bed wif you after we towel off, and we can enjoy a nice long warm skin-to-skin cuddle-nap together? Girl: Of course --- what better way to reward ya back, eh?? ❋ QuacksO (2018)

The [heated discussion] [cooled] between [the bus driver] and the cyclist when it was interrupted by an aggressive consonant dodger. ❋ Muttonmusket (2020)

[Friend] #1: [Seriously]? Another two-letter word? Friend #2: I'm [consonated], yo! ❋ Kellybelle26 (2011)