I thought I had learned in grade school that diphthongs are consonant pairs
that produce a sound different from their individual pronounciations (ph,
gh, th...). When my kids were in grade school, I learned the new term
'consonant blend' refered to the same definition. The term 'diphthong' was
no longer in the lesson. My wife (the better student) remembers it that way
too. We spoke of this in our children's grade school years.
The Britannica link clearly describes 'diphthong' as a vowel function. Is
this a case of morphing definitions since the 60's? I don't see how my wife
and I could have both mistaken the lesson independantly, and in different
schools.
I know that history is rewritten constantly to serve the politically
correct. What's going on here?
--Mickey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank van Lindert" <lindertv@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Diphthong (was: Dipthong)
Joel,
You are right about the spelling but... I was taught that diphthongs
were a kind of vowels (as opposed to monophthongs), rather than
consonants... Did I learn wrong?
See also
http://www.britannica.com/search?query=diphthong
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht Holland
>Hey, doods, if you characters are gonna be so prissy about your
>diphthongs, you ought at least to spell the word correctly. It's got
>two diphthongs of its own ("ph" and "th" corresponding to Greek phi
>and theta). ;-)
>
>"Dipthong" is what a California girl does in the Pacific Ocean when
>she wants to wash the sand off her buns (or whatever).
>
>Joel W.
>
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