Re: Bisyllabic or Disyllabic?
| From: | daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 10, 2000, 8:34 |
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H. S. Teoh wrote:
> LOL!! "biphthong" sounds funny, indeed. Almost sounds like a pun on
> "beef-thong"...
Now that would be a sight! A big guy called Biff
wearing a thong. Arrgghs!!! :)
Better go for *di*syllabic then, you guys!
> Though I wonder, are there such things as triphthongs?
I know they have them on Gotland, an island off the Swedish eastcoast.
Can't provide you with any actual examples but it sounds a bit like
/geaUd/ (to make something up) or something, where all the vowels
form a single syllable.
Daniel