Mickey wrote:
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?
It was not rewritten for me. Dipthongs were always explained as a
vowel combination in my education. Of course I learned about them a
little before the 60's. Could it be a little psychedelic effect of
the era of your education? The teachers, not you. ;-)
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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