| Pupils were asked to read a range of sentences and words, but what we were looking at was the merger of the diphthongs in the words near and square. |
| He read most of the closed and silent-e-pattern words and had the most difficulty with vowel digraphs and diphthongs. |
| Like U.S. Spanish, early Spanish exhibited a strong tendency to form diphthongs from contiguous vowels. |
| The monophthongs and diphthongs total 14 vowel sounds, perhaps the smallest vowel system of any long-established variety of English. |
| The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them. |
| In Middle High German written diphthongs like ie are pronounced in fact as diphthongs. |
