Diphthong

Contrasted with this is the next Diphthong, _O_I (aw-ee), compounded of the fifth (_o_) and the first (I) Vowel-Sounds.

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_Theoretically_, the Diphthong best adapted to represent this Idea is

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The I contained in this Diphthong may be regarded as standing in the place of U at the other extremity of the Scale.

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To make the Diphthong _long_, the two Sounds are kept quite distinct.

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_Diphthong_; but [_i_] is formed after the same manner almost, as [_e_] except that the _Teeth_ are for the most part, more stricken, and the _Tongue_ put close to the _Teeth_, the passage of the _Voice_ is rendred more strait, whence a more smart Sound also breaks forth, which notwithstanding, can sometimes be hardly distinguished from

Surdus loquens. English John Conrade Amman 1696

Diphthong - "a double vowel sound" - two vowels appearing together as the nucleus of a syllable

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When two Vowels come to - gether, and one of tb. em is diftin - guilh'd with twofmall points, you mult not make a Diphthong of them, but pronounce each diftindl - ly; as, Aii, The liver; £«, An hour

Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. 1707

The Diphthong a: is pro - 'nounc'd as e fimple; as, Orafun, A prayer, a, as in the word cefiff, oc - currs but very rarely in this Lan - guage.

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Diphthong. s cnim « frequentifllrae cuin vo - cali I a librariis confundi folct.

Suidae Lexicon, Græce & Latine 1705

The meaning of this Supreme Diphthong and general Vowel Representative is UNIVERSAL REALITY.

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