Lexicographical Neighbors of Diphthonged
Literary usage of Diphthonged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-lists by Henry Sweet (1888)
"But io is written occasionally not only for the vowel-diphthonged eo, ... Kt.
These spellings point to I as the first element of the vowel-diphthonged io. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The short i in Sweet's terminology is a high-front-wide vowel, the long i, \r\
English often spelt « in words like seed, is diphthonged, beginning like the ..."
3. The N.E.A. Phonetic Alphabet with a Review of the Whipple Experiments by Raymond Weeks, James Wilson Bright, Charles Hall Grandgent (1912)
"Simple characters stand for diphthonged sounds (mite my mute). No phonetician
would for a moment think of teaching English sounds by means of English ..."
4. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1867)
"We here see that I have written yO, not YO, and eA, not EA, to show that the
vowel-sound here is one rune, diphthonged, not two separate runes. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The short i in Sweet's terminology is a high-front-wide vowel, the long i, in
English often spelt « in words like seed, is diphthonged, beginning like the ..."
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