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More "Diphthong" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... printer, made a joke over a misprint. The word febris was printed with the diphthong , so Stephens excused himself by saying in the errata that "le chalcographe a fait une fivre longue (fbrem) quoique une fivre courte (febrem) ...
— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley
... pronunciation any more than there is an American one: in England every county has its catchwords, just as no doubt every state in the Union has. I cannot believe that the pioneer American, for example, can spare time to learn that last refinement of modern speech, the exquisite diphthong, a farfetched combination of the French eu and the English e, with which a New Yorker pronounces such words as world, bird &c. I have spent months without success in trying to achieve ...
— Captain Brassbound's Conversion • George Bernard Shaw
... and y are always vowels: conceiving the former to be equivalent to oo, and the latter to i or e. Dr. Lowth says, "Y is always a vowel," and "W is either a vowel or a diphthong." Dr. Webster supposes w to be always "a vowel, a simple sound;" but admits that, "At the beginning of words, y is called an articulation or consonant, and with some propriety perhaps, as it brings the root of the tongue in close contact with the lower part of the palate, and nearly ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... and Latin words, but, as far as our evidence goes at present, we have no doubt many cases where an original Sanskrit d is represented in Latin by l, but no really trustworthy instance in which an original Sanskrit l appears in Latin as d. Besides, the Sanskrit diphthong e cannot, as a rule, in Latin be ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... prudent propensity characterizes his descendant, who (as is well known) would not even go to the expense of a diphthong on his father's monument, but had the inscription spelled, economically, thus:—"mors ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... beginning of the word as the rules below allow. In other parts of speech it stands on the same syllable as in the ground-form, (that given in the lexicon,) except as required by these rules. When the last syllable has a long vowel or diphthong it stands on the ...
— Greek in a Nutshell • James Strong
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