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A
A first letter of the alphabet . A is a usual symbol for a low central vowel, as in father; the English long a ( ā ) is pronounced as a diphthong of ĕ and y. The corresponding letter of the Greek alphabet is named alpha. Alpha and omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, symbo... Read more
I
I 9th letter of the alphabet . This vowel can be pronounced with a short vowel sound, as the Ĭ in sit, or with a long vowel sound, like the ī in ride. The Greek correspondent is iota. J is a formal development from I. English is pronounced as a diphthong of ä and y. In c... Read more
Y
Y 25th letter of the alphabet . It was a Latin importation of the eastern Greek upsilon (see U ), which was pronounced like ü; the Romans used it for Greek words. In English y mainly represents the semivowel occurring in words such as yet; the same semivowel is the second member of the... Read more
O
O 15th letter of the alphabet . It is a usual symbol for a mid-back, rounded vowel, rather like the first part of oi. Such a vowel was represented by omicron [Gr.,=little o ], its formal and positional correspondent in the Greek alphabet. English ō is a diphthong of ŏ and w. In ... Read more
U
U 21st letter of the alphabet , corresponding to the Greek upsilon [Gr.,=u without the aspirate]. Until the late Middle Ages the capital was V, the minuscule u, no distinction being made between the consonantal and vocalic uses of the letter. The fixing of modern orthography, however, has rest... Read more
Portuguese language
Portuguese language member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). It is the mother tongue of about 170 million people, chiefly in Portugal and the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic (11 million speakers); in Brazil (154 milli... Read more
English language
English language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. It is the mother tongue of about 60 millio... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Diphthong"

DIPHTHONG
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...monophthongs. A closing diphthong ends closer than...while an opening diphthong ends more open than it begins. The diphthongs of English tend...element, and a rising diphthong is stressed on the second. The diphthongs of English tend...
SCOTTISH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...rhotic, and all the vowels and diphthongs appear unchanged before...rice . The /aɪ/ diphthong occurs in rise , tie/tied...x259;ɪ/ diphthong occurs in rice , tide , slide...6) The monophthongs and diphthongs total 14 vowel sounds, perhaps...
BIRMINGHAM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...or /ʌi/. (7) The diphthongs in gate and goat tend to vary as between...x259;ʊ/ of RP. (8) The diphthong of house and mouth is /æʊ/. (9) The diphthongs in tie and toy have merged in /D...
VOWEL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...sounds that may be long or short), DIPHTHONGS (double vowel sounds formed by gliding...system of RP has 12 monophthongs and 8 diphthongs (20 vowel sounds in all) while the...system of ScoE has 10 monophthongs and 4 diphthongs (14 vowel sounds in all). Vowel letters...
WELSH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...towards the monophthongs /e/ and /o/ and away from the diphthongs /eɪ/ and /əshtu;/ in such words as...preferred to /ʌ/ in such words as but and cut . (7) Diphthongs are often turned into two syllables with /biə...
VOWEL SHIFT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...iː, uː], and close vowels became diphthongs, the vowels in five , house changing from [iː...like raid , road , whereas these vowels have generally become diphthongs elsewhere, as in RP [eɪ, əʊ...
TEXAS
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...The variety is Southern is slightly nasal, and vowels are elongated into diphthongs which can be shown in eye dialect as hee-ut hit, ray-ud red. Some diphthongs, however, are rendered as single vowels, so that the oil business sounds...
DUBLIN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...short) /a/; in words such as suit and school there is a diphthong, so that for many people suit/suet are homophones; in...x2018;toy’ and ‘boy’; the diphthong /æu/ occurs in such words as how and mouse , and...
LONDON
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...some of its features are shared by Londoners who are not themselves Cockneys. Some vowel and diphthong sounds, notably the nasalization of the diphthong /au/ as in now and the changing of /ei/ to /ai/ which makes paper sound like piper...
KAMTOK
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...vowels /i, e, ɛ, a, ɔ, o, u/ and four diphthongs /ei, ai, au, oi/. General English central vowels are...for ground-nut and /bɔt/ for but . Centring diphthongs are reinterpreted, so that beer is /bia/, air is /ea...

Dictionary entries related to "Diphthong"

diphthong
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable diphthong a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable...coin , loud , and side ). Also, a digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat ); a compound vowel character; a ligature...
fracture
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...surface formed. 2. Phonet. the replacement of a simple vowel by a diphthong owing to the influence of a following sound, typically a consonant. ∎  a diphthong substituted in this way. • v. break or cause to break...
synizesis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology synizesis (gram., pros.) coalescence of two adjacent vowels without forming a recognized diphthong. XIX. — late L. synizēsis — Gr. sunízēsis , f. sunizánein sink down, f. SYN- + hizánein sit.
chock-full
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...they may repr. differentiated forms of OE. ċēoce or ċēace CHEEK , according as the diphthong was rising or falling. The modern chokefull dates from XVII, chockfull from XVIII, with a var. chuckfull , which may be...
shed
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...skaiþan . Beside orig. OE. sċ(e)ādan , repr. by early ME. shode , a var. with falling diphthong sċēadan arose, from which the present shed descends. The OE. vb. retained its str. conjugation in...
assonance
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...nance / ˈasənəns / • n. in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence , reticence...
pure
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...such as pure physics. Compare with applied . ∎  Phonet. (of a vowel) not joined with another to form a diphthong. ∎  involving or containing nothing else but; sheer (used for emphasis): a shout of pure anger an...
dieresis
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...naïve , Brontë . ∎  the division of a sound into two syllables, esp. by sounding a diphthong as two vowels. 2. Prosody a natural rhythmic break in a line of verse where the end of a metrical foot coincides with the...
triphthong
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology triphthong combination of three vowels in one syllable. XVI. — F. triphtongue , f. TRI- , after DIPHTHONG .
show
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...shew , shewn , repr. orig. a falling diphtong ( sċēaw- ), as against show , which repr. a rising diphthong ( sċeāw- ), is now of limited currency. Hence show sb. XIII; whence showy ( -Y1 ) XVIII.

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On the diphthong/hiatus contrast in Spanish: some experimental results *.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...sequences in hiatus and diphthongs. Thus, whereas...between hiatus and diphthong or, in other terms...hypothesized hiatus and diphthong classes present different...normally realized as diphthongs (as in the examples...General rule a. Diphthong: varias [barjas...
The diphthong dictates; LETTERS.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 6/24/2009; 307 words ; ...to me by my teacher some 60-plus years ago: 'When the diphthong rhymes with key , the i must come before the e , unless the...English teachers, I give my dictionary's definition of 'diphthong': 'A gliding vowel sound which is one syllable in length...
A loop-the-loop ace in diphthong aerobatics
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 4/29/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...experimental flights of the Wright brothers. Shaped like a box-kite with its hooks, struts and circles all strung together by diphthongs and powered by compound consonants, it was ideal for taxying lessons at which, straining every bit of the ramshackle fuselage...
The House tried to zone in on his wet, slippery diphthongs.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/27/2007; 700+ words ; ...we try all right. The House squinted and frowned in concentration, trying to zone in on Mr McCartney's wet, slippery diphthongs. Gwyneth Dunwoody (Lab, Crewe) could have been a connoisseur at one of those plinkety-plonk concerts of new classical...
SINGAPORE'S PANPAC/DIPHTHONGS TO SET UP JV IN SHANGHAI, CHINA.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 4/15/2002; 480 words ; ...Understanding (MOU) with Singapore-based Diphthongs Pte Ltd to form a new joint venture...education. Under the terms of the MOU, Diphthongs will inject its existing education business...publishing business of the joint venture. Diphthongs currently operates a 3-year old private...
Mister Language Person is the epitome of a diphthong
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 2/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...grammar column approved for internal use by the Food and Drug Administration; the grammar column that puts the "dip" in "diphthong," the "vern" in "vernacular," and the "dang" in "dangling participle." We shall commence right at the outset by...
Diphthong songs
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 10/31/2000; ; 700+ words ; A Merrittocracy Moonlights the Magnetic Field of Dreams THE 6THS Hyacinths and Thistles Merge FUTURE BIBLE HEROES I'm Lonely (and f Love ft) Merge Stephin Merritt's grand project involves nothing less than the mass production of pop. Those 69 love songs reveal new facets every time you hold them up
While the diphthongs rock, those participles dangle
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/23/1996; ; 339 words ; It's time once again for Ask Mister Language Person, the column in which we answer common reader questions that we make up concerning how to use big words irregardless of what they may or may not technically mean per se. Today we are proud to announce that Ask Mister Language Person has been named
Consumer can plan on the cell hard sell; Diphthongs will be free if you sign up today.(SOURCE)(DAILY QUIRK)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 2/14/2006; ; 584 words ; Byline: James Lileks; Staff Writer How to get a new cell phone. First, decide what kind of consumer you are: 1 A cranky old Luddite who scores points with his peer group by sneering at cell phones and the morons who insist on braying away about useless matters in public spaces in a voice that
The loss of [ei] : [ai] opposition in Middle English *.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Middle English diphthongs through its merger...another closing diphthong. The change...segment of the diphthong. A small selection...contained the relevant diphthong are listed as (1) below. Diphthongs in these words...