diphthong
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Leave it to Cher to rock a diphthong.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2019
These lines, for example, seem to evoke a police raid on a Vampire Weekend karaoke contest: Duke seizes Florence & the diphthong town, Quite a surprise to young fops & leeches.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2012
Housman's judgment of that ambitious pagan could be superimposed on the Mailer of Pieces and Pontifications without changing a diphthong: his "besetting sin is the use of words too forcible for his thoughts."
From Time Magazine Archive
For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only dialect which kept the whole diphthong in one syllable was Aeolic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
Even the big diphthongs that my grandfather’s years in the States had tamped down swelled back to their former glory in this company.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2019
All of the letters are in lower case and there are no double consonents, but there are "diphthongs, triphthongs, quadriphtongs and even quintiphthongs", which are combined vowel sounds.
From Fox News ● May 15, 2019
Given the text’s large swathes of Italian as Callas parses arias by Bellini, Puccini and Verdi, Ms. Daly has worked hard on her language skills and admits that those diphthongs still give her trouble.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2011
The gag: Schaffer's accent is classic old-style Noo Yawk, all diphthongs and mobster cadences.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2010
The diphthongs æ and œ are sounded like e: as cædo, pronounced ce'do.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
Vocabulary lists containing diphthong
Tongues Untied: The Lingo of Linguistics
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