Consonant Consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are , pronounced with the lips; , pronounced with the front of the tongue; , pronounced with the back of the tongue; , pronounced in the throat; and , pronounced by forcing air through a narrow channel (fricatives); and and , which have air flowing through the nose (nasals). Contrasting with consonants are vowels. Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one
The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry citations from that work. In the preface of the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of Agriculture", John Claudius Loudon (1825) ranked "The Complete Farmer" among the foremost publications on rural matters of the early 19th century. According to Loudon: The subject of Agriculture admits of two grand divisions; the improvement and general management of landed property, which may be termed Territorial Economy; and the cultivation and treatment of its more useful animal and vegetable productions, which is called Husbandry, or Agriculture in a more limited sense of the term." "The Complete Farmer" embraced both of these departments. Loudon describes this