How these vowel sounds are literally built into your body. And we're gonna do that using physics. Hey, smart people, Joe here. This is the Science of Vowels.

These front vowels, he says, are the "smile" vowels. One day they may even explain why we smile, but in the meantime, the big news is that it's old fashioned to think of vowels as just sounds.

Every elementary school student learns it early in their lives: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y. Scott Zolak, however, was apparently absent on the day that was taught in his school.

Vowels are the distinctive thing now. The lack of them is routine. There was a time when you had to be an experimental weirdo to ditch vowels. In Finnegans Wake, James Joyce used the word ...

Bubba is aware of vowel shifts taking place in the South and in Northern states around the Great Lakes region. In the Southern shift, the vowels in "feel" and "fill" tend to sound alike, as do ...

Vowel-less words, like srsly, thx, k, pls, rlly, srs bsns, and o rly, are a well-known feature of internet language. They save time and space in typing, but are they really more efficient?