“DIPHTHONG” на українській мові

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diphthong

In most contemporary dialects, it's a diphthong with a high front off-glide, so you might take it as mixed on the hot-or-not dimension, but ‘a front vowel sound’ it is definitely not.

However, all subsequent authors except Meek have used the diphthong , so Archaeocyathus is now treated as a justified emendation of Billings' original spelling.

For these speakers, the diphthong in fife starts out near the vowel of bud, and ends near the vowel of bade; while the diphthong in five starts near the vowel of hod, and ends nears the vowel of hed.

Our role model was our head teacher, Miss Osborne, known as the High Mistress, who flapped about the place in her gown and lapsed into classical Greek pronunciation whenever she used a diphthong .

This was adopted into English and subjected to the normal sound-changes of the late medieval and early modern period: the final - e ceased to be pronounced and the long i became a diphthong .