Re: triphtong
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 24, 2005, 6:31 |
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# 1 wrote:
> In my dictionnary (a French dictionnary), at the word "triphtong"
> (triphtongue) it says the normal stuff: a vowel that changes two times
> but they give as example the english word "fire"
>
> Does fire contain a triphong? probably something like /6i@/?
>
> Before reading this, I thought that fire were /f6j@`/ and that English
> didn't contain triphtongs
>
> But it is a French dictionnary from France so I can't be sure about
> their English knowledge
>
> Might someone tell me?
It's a triphthong in my British dialect. [fAi@]. In American English,
I believe it's more like [fAjr=]. Also, see 'hour' [aU@], IME.
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