| It does look more like a triphthong than a diphthong, but the middle sound is high-central or even high-back. |
| You will have here to prolong the first part of the diphthong and make it sound like a static vowel. |
| 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. |
| Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented. |
| He could not reconcile this kind of diphthong living with his notions of piety. |
| A closing diphthong ends closer than it begins, while an opening diphthong ends more open than it begins. |
