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   margueritem said, 11 months ago

   I’ve forgotten what a dipthong is, but I’m sure that Dean is a great example.
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   simpsonfan2 said, 11 months ago

   I haven’t forgotten what a dipthong is…I never even KNEW what a dipthong is.
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   Linux0s said, 11 months ago

   Dean does looks like a dipth.
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   Radish said, 11 months ago

   A diphthong also known as a gliding vowel, refers to two adjacent vowel sounds occurring within the same syllable.
   Dean is a dip in a thong.
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   afficionado said, 11 months ago

   @simpsonfan2
   Thongs did’nt work very well for Homer
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   Dogsniff said, 11 months ago

   I get the thong part.
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   bluskies said, 11 months ago

   @TheAwesomeBoiseStateBroncoFan

   Guess you HAVE forgotten a lot from last year. BTW, I thought you were going to start going to bed earlier to get ready for school. I thought that was a very mature decision, so what the heck are you doing posting at 1:30 or so EDT? Best wishes and hoping for a quick recovery from your leg damage. It can’t be any fun- my next-door neighbor, about your age at the time, stepped into a hole at the beach on the first day of her family’s vacation at the shore. Fractured her ankle. Talk about a bummer! Start reviewing your dips and your thongs, and listen to Marg- if you want respect, show respect and watch your language. You’ve seen enough on these forums to know that people tend to judge you by your words, not your intent. They can’t see what you meant.
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   naturally_easy said, 11 months ago

   @Radish

   can you give us an example?
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   mesachie said, 11 months ago

   oh this is a good one! It helps if you have kids who learned these words in elementary school.
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    JohnnyDiego said, 11 months ago

    @naturally_easy

    Couch, bait, coin.

    That help?
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    capndunzzl said, 11 months ago

    …I thought diphthongs were something an idiot wore on his feet.
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    SusanSunshine said, 11 months ago

    The “ow” sound in “couch”, or “cow” is actually two vowel sounds… short “o” like in “hot”, and then “ooh”, said in very quick succession. Cah-ooch.

    
    That’s what a dipthong is.

    
    “Coin” said slowly enough to hear the dipthong would be “Co-een..”

    If it were NOT a dipthong, that is, if we couldn;t hear the second vowel, “i”, it would sound like “cone” or “con.”

    
    I don’t really hear a dipthong in “bait” … no, I do….it’s “bay-eet”.

    We run them together so quickly we think it’s one sound… but it isn’t.

    
    Seeing a dip like Dean in a thong makes us run quickly, too.
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    SusanSunshine said, 11 months ago

    and very funny, JohnnyD.
    :)
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    naturally_easy said, 11 months ago

    @JohnnyDiego

    Oh yeah. I shouldn’t stay up so late.
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    Commentator said, 11 months ago

    EWW!!
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