S vs Diphthong - What's the difference?
s | diphthong |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
(rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.
* 1854 , Robert Bigsby, Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby , Woodfall and Kinder,
* 1860 , Joseph E. Worcester, An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language , A New Edition, Swan, Brewer, and Tileston (publishers),
* 1874 , Theophilus Dwight Hall, A Child’s First Latin Book , John Murray (publisher),
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun diphthong is
diphthong.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}diphthong
English
(wikipedia diphthong)Noun
(en noun)- For example: "ae", "au", "ou"
page 47:
- And he might have written the name, also, with the diphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.
page 12:
- An improper diphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as, ea'' in ''heat'', ''oa'' in ''coal .
page 3:
- The diphthong ae'' is sounded like ''?'' (§7); that is, it has the sound of ''ey'' in ''they .