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she commented on the word tessaraphthong
A group of four vowels.
August 3, 2008
yarb commented on the word tessaraphthong
auoa? *gurns*
August 3, 2008
she commented on the word tessaraphthong
ouei!
Fun fact: The only four-vowel words in the OED are ieie, a tree, and ooaa, a bird (and the International Atomic Energy Agency, if you count acronyms).
August 3, 2008
bilby commented on the word tessaraphthong
Old McDonald had one of these before he upgraded to Vowels 5.0.
August 3, 2008
mollusque commented on the word tessaraphthong
Aiee!
August 3, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word tessaraphthong
I've never encountered an actual tessaraphthong in a language; Chinese has triphthongs iao and uei (as in feng shui), and some pronunciations of English fire, tower) are triphthongs, but that seems to be the limit.
June 18, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word tessaraphthong
I knew a Ukrainian whose last name was Baklaiev, pronounced with two syllables.
June 18, 2009
cxkang commented on the word tessaraphthong
Apichatpong
June 19, 2009