MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: There's too much commotion in it, too much
confusion.

PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Then what do you want me to teach you?

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Teach me how to spell.

PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Very gladly.

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Afterwards, you may teach me the almanack, to
know when there is a moon and when not.

PHILOSOPHY MASTER: So be it. Following your thought and treating
this matter as a philosopher, it is necessary to begin according to
the order of things, by an exact knowledge of the nature of letters
and the different ways of pronouncing them all. And thereupon I
must tell you letters are divided into vowels, called vowels
because they express the voice; and into consonants because they
sound with the vowels and only mark the diverse articulations of
the voice. There are five vowels or voices: A, E, I, O, U.

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: I understand all that.

PHILOSOPHY MASTER: The vowel A is formed by opening the mouth
widely : A. Its vowels are to be given the sounds used in
vocalizing: Ah-aye-ee-o-ou.

MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: A, A. Yes.

PHILOSOPHY MASTER: The vowel E is formed by approaching the lower