I have a friend who became an English teacher mainly because of his fondness for phonetics.
"To be more precise," he says. "I just like to say the word 'diphthong.' I try to plug it into every conversation."
A diphthong, for those uninformed, is not a sexy undergarment for dips. Rather, it is a sound blend made when one vowel sort of combines with another.
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