diphthongs

I know it’s a curse, and I promptly file the word into the English compartment of my head, a corner where I am no longer a law-abiding tour guide for the House of Friendship and Peace but someone completely different, someone whose vowels are called diphthongs, whose l’s lilt and r’s roll, and whose sentences, unlike those in our docile Russian, soar at the end.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

I know it’s a curse, and I promptly file the word into the English compartment of my head, a corner where I am no longer a law-abiding tour guide for the House of Friendship and Peace but someone completely different, someone whose vowels are called diphthongs, whose l’s lilt and r’s roll, and whose sentences, unlike those in our docile Russian, soar at the end.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

Accident, or (2) in what is termed Homoeoteleuton where lines or sentences ended with the same word or the same syllable, or (3) such as arose in writing from Uncial letters, or (4) in the confusion of vowels and diphthongs which is called Itacism, or (5) in Liturgical Influence.

The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850

Avoid diphthongs, the Guggenheim Museum, and the words “sprocket,” “croque-monsieur,” and “pants” when writing an advice column.

What’s Your Problem? 2009

The first video (10 min.) is an introduction to the alphabet, with explanations of the names of the letters and where they came from; the second (just a couple of minutes, created because YouTube cut his first off at ten minutes) is a continuation, discussing the diphthongs; and the third, "Gaitsugja Meins" [ 'My chupacabras'] (5 min.), is a dialogue with explanations of grammar.

3 posts from May 2009 2009

The first video (10 min.) is an introduction to the alphabet, with explanations of the names of the letters and where they came from; the second (just a couple of minutes, created because YouTube cut his first off at ten minutes) is a continuation, discussing the diphthongs; and the third, "Gaitsugja Meins" [ 'My chupacabras'] (5 min.), is a dialogue with explanations of grammar.

Gothic for Goths 2009

The first video (10 min.) is an introduction to the alphabet, with explanations of the names of the letters and where they came from; the second (just a couple of minutes, created because YouTube cut his first off at ten minutes) is a continuation, discussing the diphthongs; and the third, "Gaitsugja Meins" [ 'My chupacabras'] (5 min.), is a dialogue with explanations of grammar.

Gothic for Goths 2009

Glottal stops and diphthongs glide in Portuguese across my ears.

Blue Line Southbound Michael J. Solender 2011

And as Gina Liuzza noted, US Southerners, with their long drawn-out diphthongs, must have a particularly hard time speaking French, in which the vowels are short and pure.

l'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day 2009

David Davis moves the old folk tale "Stone Soup" to the American Southwest for "Fandango Stew" Sterling, 32 pages, $14.95 , a boisterous picture book full of Wild West lingo that pretty much demands to be read aloud with Tex-Mex emphasis on the diphthongs.

When Imagination Blasts Into Orbit Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011