" Naumann's pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically.
The children in both the piano and reading groups performed better for vowel sounds than those in the control group.
Compared to the control group, both the music learners and the extra reading group did better in terms of discriminating words based on vowel differences.
For example, monkeys could produce comprehensible vowel sounds -- and even full sentences -- with their vocal tracts if they had the neural ability to speak.
We are not wasting a single letter — there is not one excess consonant or vowel.
The longest English word without a true vowel is "rhythm".
