"Gherkin" — I like saying it. It's vaguely Indian sounding. "Kerfuffle." That's just fun, with so many F's packed into three syllables. "Diphthong" is sly because it's hiding a silent H, the H right ...

Explore diphthong "oi" with Anna Scretching-Cole. Explore diphthong "oi" with Anna Scretching-Cole. A dipthong combines two vowels into a single syllable. Practice reading, blending, and writing words ...

I have a friend who became an English teacher mainly because of his fondness for phonetics. "To be more precise," he says. "I just like to say the word 'diphthong.' I try to plug it into every ...

This is the first of eight diphthong programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English.