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diphthong

[dif-thawng, -thong, dip-] / ˈdɪf θɔŋ, -θɒŋ, ˈdɪp- /


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Leave it to Cher to rock a diphthong.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2019

These lines, for example, seem to evoke a police raid on a Vampire Weekend karaoke contest:  Duke seizes Florence & the diphthong town, Quite a surprise to young fops & leeches.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2012

For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong.

From Time Magazine Archive

Housman's judgment of that ambitious pagan could be superimposed on the Mailer of Pieces and Pontifications without changing a diphthong: his "besetting sin is the use of words too forcible for his thoughts."

From Time Magazine Archive

Change for the diphthong or for a logotype, as �, ffi.

From Abbreviations and Signs A Primer of Information about Abbreviations and Signs, with Classified Lists of Those in Most Common Use by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)




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