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It is curious that the close o is heard only in the infrequent diphthong óu, or as an obscured, unaccented final.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERThe diphthong is long when a voiced sound follows it, short before a voiceless sound.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNListen to a foreigner's pronunciation of English words containing this diphthong; what do you notice?
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNIn both cases we have a laxly articulated short sound, and a diphthong in which the tongue rises towards the end.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNNotice the faulty tendency to raise the tongue too high in uttering the first part of this diphthong; see § 40.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNO coalesces into a diphthong with a, as moan, groan, approach: oa has the sound of o long.
A GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH TONGUESAMUEL JOHNSONVuei is a descending diphthong, the ue representing the French eu.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERWhen the root ends in a single consonant preceded by a diphthong, or in more than one consonant preceded by a vowel, reject the e.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 189, JUNE 11, 1853VARIOUSTwo vowels, or a vowel and a diphthong, coming together but sounded separately belong to separate syllables.
DIVISION OF WORDSFREDERICK W. HAMILTONThe diphthong ew is a sample of what may be called an unsteady or unstable combination.
A HANDBOOK OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGEROBERT GORDON LATHAMSYNONYM OF THE DAY
AUGUST 3, 2021
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