{"id":814,"date":"2008-01-11T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=814"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:13:08","slug":"multi-phthongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/01\/11\/multi-phthongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-phthongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always knew about <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/diphthong\">diphthongs,<\/a> but I didn&#8217;t know there were <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/monophthong\">monophthongs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/triphthong\">triphthongs<\/a> as well. Monophthongs may be obvious [single, consistent vowel sounds], but triphthongs &#8212; single-syllable vowel sounds that vary three times over their duration &#8212; are more elusive. The only English example I have found is the pronunciation of &#8220;our&#8221; in dialects that drop the &#8220;r,&#8221; like a Bostonian accent, I guess, where someone would say &#8220;owww-uhhh-aaaaah,&#8221; to put it exaggeratedly.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, I just greatly expanded the number of English words with the -phth- compound in them that I know. Monophthong, diphthong, triphthong, ophthamology [and variants], exophthalamos [and variants], naphthalene [and variants]. Man, that combination of letters together just looks odd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always knew about diphthongs, but I didn&#8217;t know there were monophthongs and triphthongs as well. Monophthongs may be obvious [single, consistent vowel sounds], but triphthongs &#8212; single-syllable vowel sounds that vary three times over their duration &#8212; are more elusive. The only English example I have found is the pronunciation of &#8220;our&#8221; in dialects&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/01\/11\/multi-phthongs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Multi-phthongs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}