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Examples
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Keu nyeo ga sa neum gos aeso yak gan gu hwek molli neon.
Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010
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June 24th, 2006 at 10: 47 am PDT eu to cheio de emeios mas nao tem neum da widows live mail reply girls
Office Live Will Be A Huge Productivity Tool Michael Arrington 2005
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Give me a day or so and I'll fill you in on the joys of ancient Hercula-neum.
Blind Alley Johansen, Iris 2004
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He's been excavating Hercula-neum for the past fifteen years and is well-known and respected by the Italian government.
Blind Alley Johansen, Iris 2004
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I ve got to pnewn neum at I ve got to pnone nome plain and ugly dialect for plain and ugly thoughts.
Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997
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So also Sicardus of Cremona: "Congrue quoque in Alleluia jubilams [this means sing the neum] ut mens illuc rapiatur ubi Sancti exsultabunt."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Or, all Alleluias are sung by the cantors, the choir only joining in the neum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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They hold, however, the prolongation of final notes, mora ultimæ vocis, not only at the end of sentences and phrases but also at the minor divisions of neum groups on one syllable.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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At the end of the second one its last sound (a) is continued in a long and complicated neum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Pneuma enim seu jubilus qui fit in fine exprimit gaudium et amorem credentium ", that is," the Alleluia is short in word and long in neum, because that joy is too great to be expressed in words.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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