5. Before people started calling it “schwa” in English (around 1895) it had a lot of nicknames. It’s been called the murmur vowel, the indeterminate vowel, the neutral vowel, the obscure ...

VOWEL-LESS CROSSWORD — This kind of puzzle is growing ... For example, to warm up and get ... Although the entries, sans vowels, top out at 11 letters in length, the complete answers (of course ...

VOWEL-LESS CROSSWORD — This puzzle is the latest installment of a variety grid that comes around roughly once a year. It’s also Evan Kalish’s third such construction and a ton of fun. I am ...