VOWELIZE

vocalize, vocalise, vowelize, vowelise

(verb) pronounce as a vowel; “between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

vowelize (third-person singular simple present vowelizes, present participle vowelizing, simple past and past participle vowelized)

(transitive) To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.

(transitive) To insert a vowel or vowels into.

Source: Wiktionary


Vow"el*ize, v. t.

Definition: To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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