| Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented. |
| 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. |
| It does look more like a triphthong than a diphthong, but the middle sound is high-central or even high-back. |
| Having seen in my few years on this job many vowel-blend and diphthong transpositions, I can well believe someone wrote that. |
| A closing diphthong ends closer than it begins, while an opening diphthong ends more open than it begins. |
| 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. |
