[Footnote A: Miss Green tells her aunt, that the word refer'd to begins with a dipthong.]— Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
Boeothick has the dipthong _sh_. -- the other languages, as before enumerated, have it not.— Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, at St. John's, Newfoundland, on Monday, 17th January, 1859
"When is a dipthong called a proper dipthong?"— The Grammar of English Grammars
"A dipthong is the union of two vowels, sounded by a single impulse of the voice."— The Grammar of English Grammars
"Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, is called a dipthong."— The Grammar of English Grammars
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