I'm not sure that you pronounced that diphthong correctly. From LearnThat.org.
All nasty nouns should be replaced by the word "diphthong". From Wordnik.com. [Mamarazzi] Reference
Isn't the rule simply kahakō else diphthong else penultimate?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BRINGING BACK HAWAIIAN.] Reference
Hmmm, an initial letter and a diphthong but thank you for trying. From Wordnik.com. [Meeror - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The vowel e is often derived from the Old Etruscan diphthong ai. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
It was the change of the oi diphthong to the ai, as in français. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Circumflex accent] Reference
These diphthongs are either the result of a Proto-Semitic diphthong e.g. From Wordnik.com. [What do I "know"?] Reference
Maybe a far shot, but “recognize” has a diphthong in the last syllable. From Wordnik.com. [Cognitive | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
She's got the Arkansas double diphthong -- da-uh, for day, the-uh, for there. From Wordnik.com. [So] Reference
Blaine was listening to their frictive patterns and diphthong stress-emphasis. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
Nor has it any diphthong or combinations of letters, such as oi, ou, ch, sh, th. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
So when a waaw or yaa 'has a sukun over it, you know that the sound is a diphthong!. From Wordnik.com. [Arabic for Dummies]
"Ammonium nitrate," she said, her southern Illinois accent drawing out the diphthong. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
"More likely with a stringency on the last syllable of the diphthong," suggested Dr. Glueface. From Wordnik.com. [Skiddoo!] Reference
When the last syllable has a long vowel or diphthong it stands on the syllable before the last. From Wordnik.com. [Greek in a Nutshell] Reference
It could be fricativized if, say, written O represents actual /uo/, a diphthong with a closed onset. From Wordnik.com. [Linear A treatment of consonant clusters] Reference
Nāvis was originally a diphthong stem ending in au -, but it has passed over to the ĭ-stems (§ 37). From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
The digraph "ai" in foreign spellings often represents something more like the diphthong in the word "eye". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ON NOT SPEAKING WELL.] Reference
And then the accent: not Canadian, no raised ou diphthong. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
I held that diphthong in "Wait!" so long it slid into a schwa. From Wordnik.com. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] Reference
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