Category: Pronunciation

Accent with a short glide

There are sounds (phonemes) in English that are more about the movement between two sounds than the two sounds themselves. Specifically, /aɪ/, /aʊ/, /ɔɪ/, /e/, and /o/ (KK, as usual, although the first three are the same in IPA.) In some regional dialects and accents, the movement between the two sounds […]