diphthong

Example Sentences

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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

The only dialect which kept the whole diphthong in one syllable was Aeolic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various