Lexicographical Neighbors of Diphthonging
Literary usage of Diphthonging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of Standard English Speech in Outline by James Morgan Hart (1907)
"diphthonging of г, и.—Every г, whether long in OE, or lengthened ... This diphthonging
process began in the fifteenth century, and continued through the ..."
2. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-lists by Henry Sweet (1888)
"Isolative diphthonging or ' vowel- cleaving ' mainly affects long vowels, evidently
because of the difficulty of prolonging the same position without change ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1885)
"Upon your own shoulders be the respon- bility of diphthonging M. Godart, by which
you risk confusing the Burgundian entomologist Godart, who died in July, ..."
4. Studies in Language and Literature in Celebration of the Seventieth Birthday by Clark Sutherland Northup, Martin Wright Sampson, William Strunk, Frank Thilly (1910)
"Apparently, then, the diphthonging was a process of the early thirteenth century,
completed by the time of the second text. 1970 B. turne: "probably the ..."
5. New High German: A Comparative Study by William Winston Valentine (1894)
"In NHG the relations of quantity destroyed, and almost all originally short stem
vowels inorganically lengthened. (/3) By diphthonging or additional Bound ..."
6. The Modern Language Quarterly by Walter Wilson Greg (1904)
"As many French words end in a stressed vowel, and as there are many long pure
vowels, this diphthonging is one of the commonest English mistakes. ..."
7. An Historical Study of the ō-vowel in Accented Syllables in English by Edwin Winfield Bowen (1895)
"... its primitive value till about the beginning ofi Modern English, when it became
long u and as such remained* till the diphthonging in Living English. ..."
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