Diphthong

Diph•thong [ˈdifˌTHäNG,ˈdipˌTHäNG]
Noun
== Origin ==
#Greek: Thongos
#Greek: Dithongos
#Greek: Diphtongos
#Late Latin: Diphtons
#French: Diphtongue
#Then: Diphthong
== Meanings ==
#a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another as in coin, loud, and side.
##A digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel as in feat.
##compound vowel character; a ligature such as æ.
== Examples ==
#The sounds of "ou" in "out" and of "oy" in "boy" are diphthongs.
#Our heroes come from House Atreides, their elegance enhanced by that smooth classical diphthong.
#The reader can almost hear Camilleri’s longtime translator, Stephen Sartarelli, chuckling over his rendition of Catarella’s chatter as that mishmash of h-dropping Cockney and diphthong.
#It possesses the five vowels "a, i, u, e, o", both short and long, and one pure diphthong, au.
#Thus the long i in ride, wine, &c., has become the diphthong ai, and the name of the symbol I is itself so pronounced.
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