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American English pronunciation of "no highway cowboys" /noʊ ˈhaɪweɪ ˈkaʊbɔɪz/, showing five diphthongs: / oʊ, aɪ, eɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ / A diphthong (/ ˈ d ɪ f θ ɒ ŋ, ˈ d ɪ p-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice' and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is ...
Monophthongization is a sound change by which a diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of vowel shift.It is also known as ungliding, [1] [2] as diphthongs are also known as gliding vowels.
Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport [1] in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring ...
Up-gliding NURSE: Among the various stereotypes of New York City speech is the use of a front-rising diphthong in words with /ɜːr/, or the NURSE vowel. This stereotype is popularly represented in stock phrases like "toity-toid" for thirty-third.
gliding, glossing: A sweeping glide from one pitch to another used for dramatic effect Legato: tied: A series of notes played with a smooth connection between them Col legno: with the wood: Calls for a bowed instrument's strings to be struck with the wood of the bow (rather than drawn across with the hair of the bow). Martellato: hammered
Up-gliding NURSE is a diphthongized vowel sound, [əɪ], used as the pronunciation of the NURSE phoneme / ɜːr /. This up-gliding variant historically occurred in some completely non-rhotic dialects of American English and is particularly associated with the early twentieth-century (but now extinct or moribund) dialects of New York City , New ...
Susanne Schödel was German women's champion in 2010, and women's world champion in 2009 and 2011, flying Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2.The following table lists Susanne Schödel's FAI records [3] accomplished in Africa, flying Schempp-Hirth aircraft (Schempp-Hirth Arcus, Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2, Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4) while stationed at Bitterwasser airfield in Namibia.
Sandskeið (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsan(t)ˌsceiːθ]) is the main gliding center in Iceland and home of the Icelandic gliding club ( Svifflugfélag Íslands) since 1936. It is situated 20 km to the east of Reykjavík, the Icelandic capital, by Route 1. It is a big grass airfield, the main runway is running 150/330 and is 200 x 1.300 meters ...