"Diphthong" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thought of that, invincible doctor. A misty English morning the imp hypostasis tickled his brain. Bringing his host down and kneeling he heard twine with his second bell the first bell in the transept (he is lifting his) and, rising, heard (now I am lifting) their two bells (he is kneeling) twang in diphthong. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... after a vowel or diphthong except where such a division involves beginning the next syllable with a group of consonants.[12] In that case the consonants are distributed between the two syllables, one consonant going with one syllable and the other with the following, except when the ...
— A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger • Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand
... II. i-Stems. III. Consonant-Stems which have partially adapted themselves to the inflection of i-Stems. IV. A very few stems ending in a long vowel or a diphthong. V. Irregular Nouns. ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... or Hyios. The Rule doesn't seem to address the possibility of upsilon coming first in a diphthong: upsilon iota is not common, but "Hui" looks more plausible ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein
... the sound of u long, as in few, chew, etc. (perhaps this may be considered a proper diphthong); ...
— The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language - Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric • Sherwin Cody
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