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Sonant   Listen
noun
Sonant  n.  A sonant letter.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sonant" Quotes from Famous Books



... cannot utter a note unless he can lift his tail. Then, as now, gootles were made by a single concern having a great capital invested and an immense plant, and employing an army of workmen. It dealt, as it does to-day, directly with consumers. Afflicted with a sonant donkey a man would write to the trust and receive his gootle by return mail, or go personally to the factory and carry his purchase home on his shoulder—according to where he lived. The reformer said this was primitive, crude and injurious to the interests of ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce

... already perfectly developed in Handschuh; and yet in other words, as appears from the above examples, it is either simply left out or has its place supplied by z and ss. Further, it sounds almost like wantonness when frequently the surd consonant is put in place of the sonant one or vice versa; when, e. g., puch (for Buch) puecherr is said on the one hand, and wort instead of "fort" on the other. Here belongs likewise the peculiar staccato manner of uttering the syllables, e. g., pil-ter-puch (Bilder-buch—picture-book). ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

... sonant, Aut aestuantis Larii, Aut qui severo tangit Albanus lacu Inenatabilem Styga: Aut quae procellis gaudet, & magno fremit Superba ponto Julia: Nec major usquam spumat, & rupes truci Benacus assultat salo. Intonsa curvo monte ...
— The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils • Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski



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