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Diphthongize

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To pronounce as or become a diphthong.

v. To change to a diphthong (as by inserting or removing a vowel).

v. To become a diphthong.

v. To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.

To change, as a vowel, into a diphthong: thus the u of many Anglo-Saxon words has been diphthongized into ow in modern English, as in the word now.

To unite in forming a diphthong.

Also spelled diphthongise.

v. change from a simple vowel to a diphthong

"Many English speakers diphthongize _a_, _i_, _o_, and pronounce _late_ as "l_a-i_t," _pale_ as "p_a-i_l," _paper_ as "p_a-y_-per," _road_ as"

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