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Diphthong   /dˈɪpθɔŋ/   Listen
Diphthong

noun
1.
A vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another.



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"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


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