The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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All of the letters are in lower case and there are no double consonents, but there are "diphthongs, triphthongs, quadriphtongs and even quintiphthongs", which are combined vowel sounds.
From Fox News ● May 15, 2019
He erodes consonants, turns simple vowels into unpredictable diphthongs, and takes each new sentence as an opportunity for rococo improvisation.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
Mr. Pinsky is also a great jokester, a lover of puns, a supreme ironist and a serious carnivore, a lover of the meaty consonants and diphthongs of that Anglo-Teutonic goulash we call English.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2010
The gag: Schaffer's accent is classic old-style Noo Yawk, all diphthongs and mobster cadences.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2010
The diphthongs æ and œ are sounded like e: as cædo, pronounced ce'do.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
