By Diphthongs

Yes, there are regional variations in American English. Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American?My problem is that, as I have mentioned before, they are indeed denoted differently in British English. The first one is a simple...

In British English, what you said are two different vowels and are in fact denoted differently in IPA. The extended ones are diphthongs.bet / bet /bear / ber / bee / bi: / beer / bir / (The non-rhotic "r" cannot be shown accurately.) I wonder my understanding of IPA for British English...

It would be helpful for you to re-read the rules in the link posted by Jim above. The rules do NOT require the words to be monosyllabic. They also apply to words with more than one syllable. However, you only need to pay attention to the last syllable when applying the rules. To summarize,...

Hello bloggers! You have been posting a lot of diphthong what about triphthong. Could you please post examples? Thank you. Triphthong searcher

Wow, you even studied linguistics... Well, /ɪ/ is the vowel in TIP, and /aɪ/ is the diphthong in TYPE. The symbol /i/ technically stands for a higher vowel, as in TEA, for example. That's IPA. SAMPA is another transcription method where only ASCII characters are used (so you can find them on...

It would have been rather difficult to understand diphthongss without your help.'Understanding' will work as the subject of the sentence: Understanding diphthongs without your help would have been.....

Do the following sentences mean the same?1: It could have been rather difficult to understand diphthong without your help.2: It could have been rather difficult understanding diphthong without your help.

Sorry, CB, I forgot to thank you. It could have been rather difficult to understand diphthong without your help.

Hi there. First time user on these forums so I hope I have posted in the correct forum My 6 year old son is learning to read and is progressing steadily. However, he struggles to remember the spelling for words which use the diphthongs OW and OU. So for example, he'll think owl is spelt...

Hi CB,Could it have been ''it's in a wide screen''?