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the speech sound that survives even when you delete every vowel — see: ths sntnc
hebrew scriptOriginally written with almost no vowels at all
textingVowel-dropping shrinks words and survives perfectly
english count21 letters, but dozens of actual sounds
airflowMade by blocking or squeezing the breath
clustersGeorgian word gvprtskvni stacks eight in a row