diphthong

a gliding monosyllabic speech sound (as the vowel combination at the end of toy) that starts at or near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves to or toward the position of another


Sounds like an insult, but it’s not! So, you couldn’t really call Roy a diphthong, even though his name contains one. It also sounds a little like something an immodest man might wear.

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