digraph

• “Digraphs: The digraph is a two-letter "country code" that precisely identifies every entity without overlap, duplication, or omission.”

  The 1995 CIA World Factbook

• “A digraph is a union of two vowels, or of two consonants, in one sound.”

  The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.

• “Thus, the center of a digraph is a vertex that is closest to the vertex most distant from it.”

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• “Welsh seems to follow through the logic of the digraph=single-letter idea much more consistently than Spanish even before they stopped doing it at least ten years ago.”

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• “I just typed: "Interestingly, come to think of it, the digraph ph is often the mark of foreignness in Latin loans from Greek, as in our discussed word tōphus.”

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• “Interestingly, come to think of it, the digraph ph is often the mark of foreignness in Latin loans from Greek, as in our discussed word tōphus.”

  The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone

• “The letter digraph represents the pronunciation of the vowel in .”

  Urdu in English | Linguism

• “Though I believe the OE character "ae" ash is a digraph.”

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• “The Guugu-Yimidhirr represents [N], so Cook wrote it down as 'kangooroo', but the digraph was later read as the more English-sounding [Ng].”

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• “The digraph "ai" in foreign spellings often represents something more like the diphthong in the word "eye".”

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