For, to say that "consonants alone may form syllables," is as much as to say that consonants are not consonants, but vowels!

3.In their definitions of vowels and consonants, many grammarians have resolved letters into sounds only; as, "A Vowel is an articulate sound," &c."A Consonant is an articulate sound," &c.L. Murray's Gram., p. 7.

For instance: "A consonant is a letter that cannot be perfectly sounded without the help of a vowel.

The consonants and vowels are the gesture of the buccal apparatus, and gesture, properly so called, is the product of the myological apparatus.

only clear What vowels and what consonants are there.

Hebrew letters, some account of; names, characters, and significations of whether they are, or are not, all consonants, long a subject of dispute The Hebrew names for the months, were prop.

Consonants are sounds produced by interruptions of the outgoing current of air, but in some cases have no sound in themselves, and serve merely to modify vowel sounds.

The flat or smooth consonants are d, and all others with which the proper sound of d may be united; as in the words, daubed, judged, hugged, thronged, sealed, filled, aimed, crammed, pained, planned, feared, marred, soothed, loved, dozed, buzzed.