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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