I love dipthongs

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Hello, my name is ABbie and I love DIPTHONGS!

I also love to make up short phrases w/all the english dipthongs:

COWBOY BLIGHT

Tell me about your feelings, disdainful or glorious, regarding these mishmashes of vowels.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

dip-thongs?

― Venom 18, the autistic spy (flezaffe), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

aren't diphthongs 'ae' 'ou' 'ei' etcetera?

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

*goes off to root for Greek grammar textbook*

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

abbotts right, ow, oy, igh are diphtongs. but, not dipthongs.

― Venom 18, the autistic spy (flezaffe), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

????

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

There are more diphthongs than that in English, surely.

― Casuistry (casuistry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

*returns with smug grin*

Yeah, and it's spelt with an 'h' after the 'p'. :-D

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

And both spellings are OK, but "diphthong" is more fun.

― Casuistry (casuistry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell me all of the dipthongs! I want to cherish them like Christ did children.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how the word "diphthong" itself is kind of vaguely pervy, but I find it depressing that there are actually no diphthongs in the word diphthong.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I've seen both spellings in textbooks.

- my name is Nick, and I am a product of the American public education system

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

get any two vowels, jam them together in any order, hey presto, a diphthong!

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

These strange thong things exist in a lot of languages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphthong

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

French has great diphthongs. (sorry, not English)

La sueur is one of my favorites. It means "sweat."

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

except 'iu', 'ua', 'uo', 'ia', 'io', and 'eo', because they can't really be forced into one syllable.

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't even say "dif-thongs." That is because I grew up in Idaho.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

WHOA TRIPHTHONGS!

The following British Received Pronunciation vowel sequences are sometimes analyzed as triphthongs stressed on the first element (they are also analyzed as disyllabic sequences of a diphthong and a monophthong):

* [aʊ̯ə] as in hour
* [aɪ̯ə] as in fire

* [eɪ̯ə] as in player
* [ɔɪ̯ə] as in loyal, royal
* [əʊ̯ə] as in lower

HOLY HANNAH! MY TONGUE IS AFLAME LIKE THE PENTECOST!

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

where does this leave MAOAM?

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

DAMN YOU! Now I'm trying to hoover up these annoying fly things, just because I googled MAOAM...

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

t/s: irritating skater boy vs. screen flies

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Dip thong:
http://brigite.com/photo%20gallery5/1.jpg

― Stupid, and is severely rationed, when I am: happy for sweet pickles, and t (goo, Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/8c/250px-Dipset.JPG + http://www.souvenirsaustralia.com/images/sydnightthongmagnet1.jpg

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't believe a dipthong has to be a multi-letter combination either. The 'i' in 'bite' for example is a dipthong, being equivalent to an 'ai' sound rather than a pure 'i'.

― Dalzinho (Dalzinho), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link

At first I was like, what sort of thongs are these dipthongs that Abbot like? But I see it was a typo.

You should come to Finland, Finnish is ripe with diphthongs. The favourite Finnish word to say to foreigners is hääyöaie, which can twist quite a few tongues. (It means "wedding night intention", and it's not really a word anyone would use in normal language, but it's formally correct anyway.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

likes

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

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