Continental Monthly The , page 189 by Various Authors
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oo as in fool). SHADE (Retiracy, Turbidity, Mixture, Practice).
9. IU, iu (YIU), (u in union, use). CONJUNCTION (Event, Joining).
10. AI, ai (ah-ee, i in fine). BASIC REALITY (Ground of Existence).
11. OI, oi (aw-ee, oy in boy). AERIAL or ASCENDING REALITY (Loft, Loftiness).
12. OI, oi (o-ee, oi in going). FRONTNESS, PROSPECT.
13. AU, au (ou in our). UNIVERSAL REALITY.
The Vowels and Diphthongs of this Basic Scale may be Long or Short, without any change of quality. This difference is indicated by diacritical marks, which it is not now necessary to exhibit.
In addition to these merely quantitative differences in the Vowel-Sounds, there is a corresponding difference of Quality, which produces a Counter-Scale of Vowel-Sounds; an echo or repetition of the Basic Scale throughout its entire length. This new Scale is a Series of Sounds predominantly short in quantity. They are called by Mr. Pitman the Stopped Vowels. (In German they are denominated the Sharp Vowels.) These Sounds are nearly always followed by a Consonant-Sound in the same syllable, by which they are stopped or broken abruptly off, and the purity of their quality as Vowels affected or disturbed.
It is not essential for our present purpose to give a detailed list of these Vowels; more especially as every Reader will readily recall them; as I, in pIn; E, in pEt; A in pAt; o, in not; u, in but; O, in stOne, cOAt; U, in fUll.
In respect to the Vowel Diphthongs, the Stopped Sounds are not materially different from the short quantities of the corresponding Full ones; and no effort need be made to distinguish the two former varieties of Sound. The same is true of the Short and Stopped Sounds of A (ah). But the difference is very marked in the remaining Seven (7) Simple Vowels; the Stopped Sounds of which are given above. For the ordinary purposes o