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That’s a great lesson… but I’ve got a question. I never really understood this one:
If syllables never have more than one vowel in them, are words like “tour” or “soap” monosyllabic or disyllabic? It’s too confusing… They sound like one syllable but they have 2 vowels… so what are they?
Words like that fall under the category of “diphthongs” – two vowels combined in pronunciation, together forming a single, long syllable. To put it bluntly, they don’t “count” as separate vowels because they aren’t pure (or separately pronounced) vowels.
That's the super short explanation. You can check out the longer explanation - complete with an explanation of Monophthong (or pure vowels) and Triphthong on Wikipedia
Hi Pradeep,
I’ll try to explain what a diphthong is as best as I can! It has to do with phonetics and how the words sound when they are pronounced. A diphthong comes about when there are two vowels together, creating a certain sound. Words such as eye, boy, my, weigh and say, all have a diphthong where the vowels are found together. You’ll find when saying these words that the”ey” goes up in tone as you say it. The diphthong usually sounds high in pitch and scoops up in your voice going from a low ee to a high eii type sound.
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