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 (nineteen years ago)

dip-thongs?

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

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

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

*goes off to root for Greek grammar textbook*

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

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

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

????

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

There are more diphthongs than that in English, surely.

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

*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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

These strange thong things exist in a lot of languages:

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

where does this leave MAOAM?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

t/s: irritating skater boy vs. screen flies

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

likes

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

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