All 3 Uses of
consonant
in
The Magic Mountain
- On the contrary, this slippery syllable with its lingual and labial consonants and scanty vowel in the middle really began to disgust him after a while, conjuring up for him somehow images of watery milk—something whitish-blue and insipid, particularly when compared with all the robust fodder that Dr. Krokowski was serving up.
Chpt 4.6 *consonants = speech sounds that are not vowels
- In his day, Herr Settembrini had tried to utter its intricate succession of consonants—not, however, as an honest attempt at its wild jungle of sound, but as an amusing challenge for his own hopelessly elegant Latinity.†
Chpt 6.5
- He reprimanded himself for it, but went right on, sotto voce, but emphatically, even though his lips were so numb that he did not bother to use them and spoke without the consonants that they helped form, which then reminded him of a previous occasion on which the same thing had happened.†
Chpt 6.7
Definition:
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(consonant as in: consonant or vowel?) a letter of the alphabet (or a speech sound) that is not a vowel