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.
dip-thongs?
aren’t diphthongs ‘ae’ ‘ou’ ‘ei’ etcetera?
*goes off to root for Greek grammar textbook*
abbotts right, ow, oy, igh are diphtongs. but, not dipthongs.
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There are more diphthongs than that in English, surely.
*returns with smug grin*
Yeah, and it’s spelt with an ‘h’ after the ‘p’. :-D
And both spellings are OK, but “diphthong” is more fun.
Tell me all of the dipthongs! I want to cherish them like Christ did children.
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.
Yeah I’ve seen both spellings in textbooks.
- my name is Nick, and I am a product of the American public education system
get any two vowels, jam them together in any order, hey presto, a diphthong!
These strange thong things exist in a lot of languages:
French has great diphthongs. (sorry, not English)
La sueur is one of my favorites. It means “sweat.”
except ‘iu’, ‘ua’, ‘uo’, ‘ia’, ‘io’, and ‘eo’, because they can’t really be forced into one syllable.
I can’t even say “dif-thongs.” That is because I grew up in Idaho.
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
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* [eɪ̯ə] as in player
* [ɔɪ̯ə] as in loyal, royal
* [əʊ̯ə] as in lower
HOLY HANNAH! MY TONGUE IS AFLAME LIKE THE PENTECOST!
where does this leave MAOAM?
DAMN YOU! Now I’m trying to hoover up these annoying fly things, just because I googled MAOAM...
t/s: irritating skater boy vs. screen flies
Dip thong:
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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’.
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.)
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