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Having seen in my few years on this job many vowel-blend and diphthong transpositions, I can well believe someone wrote that.
In most contemporary dialects, it's a diphthong with a high front off-glide, so you might take it as mixed on the hot-or-not dimension.
Nouns ending in d or g containing a long vowel or diphthong where that consonant is syncopated in the plural, preserve it in the diminutive.
A closing diphthong ends closer than it begins, while an opening diphthong ends more open than it begins.
It does look more like a triphthong than a diphthong, but the middle sound is high-central or even high-back.
Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
Whereas multiple vowels are normally voiced in separate syllables, each vowel composing a diphthong is voiced together within one syllable.
You will have here to prolong the first part of the diphthong and make it sound like a static vowel.
However, all subsequent authors except Meek have used the diphthong, so Archaeocyathus is now treated as a justified emendation of Billings' original spelling.
The English word yes, for example, consists of a palatal glide followed by a monophthong rather than a rising diphthong.
The diphthong system in Northern Sami varies considerably from one dialect to another.
The syllable nucleus is usually a vowel, in the form of a monophthong, diphthong, or triphthong, but sometimes is a syllabic consonant.
Raising is influenced by voicing of the following consonant, but it also appears to be influenced by the sound before the diphthong.
In the sources from the mid-1920s the diphthong ie and the first component of the triphthong ieu was interpreted as a semivowel.
Limburgish preserved the diphthong wherever it was preserved in High German.
Some linguists use the terms diphthong and triphthong only in this phonemic sense.
The greater extension of spontaneous diphthong formation in French than in other Romance languages is often attributed to the effects of the heavy stress presumably used by the Frankish superstratum.
Here, you will have to record the full diphthong, spoken quite briefly.
In 1628, the Waldsteins obtained count's dignity of the Holy Roman Empire and count's dignity of Bohemia, and since then, they have been writing their names with the letter W and diphthong ei, i.e. Counts of Waldstein.
A diphthong is a vowel that changes over time when pronounced.
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Examples from Classical Literature
With these are grouped in the grammar nouns with stems in,, or a diphthong.
Then I had to pounce on him, and tell him it was Latin, as he might know by the diphthong.
Verbs are classified in conjugation according to the radical letter following the root vowel, or diphthong, in the 1st Pers.
He could not reconcile this kind of diphthong living with his notions of piety.
It has taken the allied sound of the semivowel y, and so, with the preceding vowel, constitutes a diphthong.
In both cases we have a laxly articulated short sound, and a diphthong in which the tongue rises towards the end.
E may be said to form a diphthong by reduplication, as agree, sleeping.
In bead we have not a single vowel, but a kind of diphthong.
These included a common long vowel, a diphthong, and an unaccented final syllable.
Two letters forming a diphthong or digraph are not to be separated.
When the two initial vowels of the second word do not form a diphthong.
The diphthong oi is the vowel o modified, plus the semivowel y modified.
Stoup has the Norse diphthong which has been simplified in Gael.
Consequently, the two components of the diphthong that are separated by the glide form two different syllable nuclei and hence the word is disyllabified.
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