600: consonants and vowels Jul 30, 2016

The opposite of a vowel, in a sense, would be a consonant, in that if a letter is not one, it must by default be the other. The words used to be more related to each other. 'Vowel' now comes from the Latin, 'vocalis (littera)' which means 'vocal (letter)'. 'Consonants' on the other hand, are go with vowels, and even the word itself is derived from the Latin parts 'con-' meaning ‘with’ and 'sonare' which means ‘to sound’, because almost all syllables in English are made up of vowel-consonant clusters.
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