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Owl

Hand painted wooden owl and it's mirrored reflection.

 

A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (length). They are usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation such as tone, intonation and stress.

 

The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "vocal". In English, the word vowel is commonly used to refer both to vowel sounds and to the written symbols that represent them (a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y).

 

Eunoia is the shortest English word containing all five main vowel graphemes.

 

In rhetoric, eunoia, in ancient Greek 'well mind; beautiful thinking' is the goodwill a speaker cultivates between themselves and their audience, a condition of receptivity. In Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses the term to refer to the kind and benevolent feelings of goodwill a spouse has which form the basis for the ethical foundation of human life. Cicero translates εὔνοιᾰ with the Latin word benevolentia.

It is also a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health.

 

Euouae, at six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and, also, the word with the most consecutive vowels. Euouae : medieval musical term which indicates the vowels of the syllables of "seculorum Amen," which ends the "Gloria Patri."

 

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl.

 

Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except the polar ice caps and some remote islands.

 

Owls are divided into two families: the true (or typical) owl family, Strigidae, and the barn-owl family, Tytonidae.

Source Wikipedia.

 

TD : 0.4" f/8 ISO 100 @50mm

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