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Word: diphthongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong. For Pygmalion, a road company Liza Doolittle is counseled on Cockney sounds: "Liar is lawyer . . . Handkerchief is Enkecher . . . Brute is not broot: it is brer-ewt. The utterance is slovenly and nasal, colds in the head being almost chronic in the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mailman Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1911-1925 | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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