diphthongs...is composed of two vowels that are pronounced as one. is it right to say ..two vowels sounded as one how about gave,arrange, those word with long a.. how can i easily identify diphthongs? Normal 0 false false

Hello, I don't know this either. I thought diphthongs could consist only of combinations of vowel sounds. I've just checked this in some dictionaries and they seem to confirm my understanding. From Oxford online dic : diphthong : a

Long, long ago and far, far away, I once learned that w is really more often a part of a diphthong rather than a pure vowel. Ho w , co w , fe w . Examples of when it is a consonant w ay, w izard. The best way to tell is if it creates a separate

From Dictionary.com Word History : Why do we pronounce one (wŭn) and once (wŭns) while other words derived from one, like only, alone, and atone, are pronounced with a long o? Over time, stressed vowels commonly become diphthongs, as when Latin

syllable Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a , I , out , too , cap , snap , check ). A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen , also constitutes a syllable.

Yes, it is a vowel, if used in diphthong (e.g. "show," "claw," "shaw," et c.; used to complete the elongated vowel) or, as stated above, in cwm or crwth, words both Welsh-derived meaning an "amphitheater-like

I doubt I'd say 'I' as /ai/ in fast speech. More like just / ə /. That's a good point too, but it's not a schwa in my opinion. For me, it's the first vowel in the diphthong /aɪ/, as in "eye". In other words,

I doubt I'd say 'I' as /ai/ in fast speech. More like just / ə /. That's a good point too, but it's not a schwa in my opinion. For me, it's the first vowel in the diphthong /aɪ/, as in "eye". In other words,

bye =A0 =A0for =A0 =A0by I don't know. Peter Duncanson, UK (in uk.culture.language.english) May be, just may be what the original poster meant to express was that he's noticed the word 'bye' being articulated (and not written) with

Here is the most complete set of rules I could come up with: - If a word ends with a consonant-vowel-consonant combination (C-V-C), and the word * has only one syllable (ex.: get) OR * the last syllable in a word with two or more syllables is