Diphthong synonyms

It possesses the five vowels a, i, u, e, o, both short and long, and one pure diphthong, au.

Thus the long i in ride, wine, &c., has become the diphthong ai, and the name of the symbol I is itself so pronounced.

Latin e was identified with a native diphthong ei, and becomes zvy, as in rhwyf from remus.

It was not by any means exclusively the " battle of a diphthong."

A hard-and-fast rule of pronunciation is that only vowel or diphthong sounds, or the letters" m," n," ng," k," t "and" p "are permissible at the end of words, and hence the final letter of all words ending in anything else is simply suppressed or is pronounced as though it were a letter naturally producing one or other of those sounds.