Follies: Your favorite diphthong- Page 2
Follies: Your favorite diphthong
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #26
Posted: 10/28/11 at 6:19pm
Not in its correct pronunciation ("?jo?s?" is what my dictionary says).
This will be pretty pointless, but many people seem to not know what a diphthong is. It is when one syllable has multiple vowel sounds. The words "I," "how," and "ew" (pronounced "ah-ee," "ha-ow," and "ee-oo," the diphthong coming in at the last moment). As someone said, "dia" is not a diphthong because it is two syllables, but the first syllable ("di") is.
This thread is pretty hilarious so far.
Joined: 12/31/69
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #27
Posted: 10/28/11 at 7:02pmDiadem is as much a diphthong as that music at the start of Wicked is an overture.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #28
Posted: 10/28/11 at 7:27pm
My online dict. gives juicy as an example of a diphthong.
Maybe they pronounce it jee-uicy.
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #29
Posted: 10/28/11 at 8:40pm
This thread is giving me flashbacks to studying the Skinner Method.
Every possible diphthong has a symbol. I remember trying to score a script in phonetics. The horror......
Joined: 12/31/69
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #31
Posted: 10/28/11 at 11:03pm
That Stritch woman works in a great one:
"Dreamin' of the great day when
I'll be in a sho-ow
OOooOooHhhh"
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #32
Posted: 10/29/11 at 12:01amMy favorite hiatus in Follies is the intermission.
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #33
Posted: 10/29/11 at 7:11amJoe, you're such a diphthong.
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Follies: Your favorite diphthong #34
Posted: 10/29/11 at 9:27amI'm sorry I ever brought it up- this diphthong rating is tearing us apart! Can't we just enjoy the show and not have to dissect each and every vowel combination?
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #35
Posted: 10/29/11 at 9:49amYou started it. This is your folly.
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Follies: Your favorite diphthong #36
Posted: 10/29/11 at 12:47pm
Did you know that diphthong is one of a few words in the English language that has 4 consonants consecutively.
Maybe the only one?
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #37
Posted: 10/29/11 at 12:58pm
Not to be a smart ass but:
eighth
heights
crankshaft
prankster, etc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Follies: Your favorite diphthong #38
Posted: 10/29/11 at 4:01pm
"Did you know that diphthong is one of a few words in the English language that has 4 consonants consecutively?"
I did not and it's causing me much angst.
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