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diphthong| Sound composed of two vowel elements joined to form one sound. English diphthongs include the vowels in ‘nice’, ‘south’, and ‘voice’; also, in many accents, including the standard accent of England, those of ‘face’, ‘nose’, ‘fierce’, ‘scarce’, and ‘tour’. |
| The term is sometimes also used to refer to sequences of vowel letters, or diagraphs (conventional two-letter sequences with special values), for example, the ea of ‘bread’, pronounced as a single vowel; particularly so when written as a ligature, as æ in ‘Cæsar’. |
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