diphthong
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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
There is Noel Coward, every precious diphthong faultlessly mimicked by Daniel Massey �with only the barest dash of the saline wit that has kept him quoted for almost 50 years.
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
Thus, if I wish the diphthong ou to have its proper value, I may write oor instead of our; many have done so and lived, and the pillars of the universe remained unshaken.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Vocabulary lists containing diphthong
Tongues Untied: The Lingo of Linguistics
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National Spelling Bee '14: Prelims Round 2
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"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell
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