Usage examples (4)

• She's getting the Oklahoma monophthong -- mah, she says, for my, and raht, for right.
• A monophthong, on the other hand, is a vowel sound that has the same sound throughout, like the/æ/sound in American English hat.
• Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English (which is why the president stopped doing it after the first time at his press conference),...
• Monophthongization is the process of converting a diphthong to a monophthong (I’ll explain those terms in a minute.)