Crossword-Solution: DIPHTHONGS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

She said “good murning” for “good morning,” and turned other vowels to diphthongs, and played two or three pranks with her “r's.” But we cannot be all imperfection: with her pronunciation her folly came to a full stop.

But where a vowel ends a word the next begins either with a consonant or what is its equivalent; for our _w_ and _h_ aspirate, and our diphthongs, are plainly such.

But just as in language certain diphthongs and syllables are frequently recurring, so we have in the body certain secondary and tertiary combinations, which we meet more frequently than the solitary elements of which they are composed.

The difference consists, not so much in idiom or vocabulary, as in pronunciation--especially in the pronunciation of the long vowels and diphthongs.(1) As a consequence of this, I have found it impossible, in bringing together dialect poems from all parts of the county, to reduce their forms to what might be called Standard Yorkshire.

His dialect, apart from its base nasal delivery, is not unlike that of smart London society in its tendency to replace diphthongs by vowels (sometimes rather prettily) and to shuffle all the traditional vowel pronunciations.