Definition of "diphthongs" [diphthongs]

• Plural form of diphthong. (noun)

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• "I know it’s a curse, and I promptly file the word into the English compartment of my head, a corner where I am no longer a law-abiding tour guide for the House of Friendship and Peace but someone completely different, someone whose vowels are called diphthongs, whose l’s lilt and r’s roll, and whose sentences, unlike those in our docile Russian, soar at the end."
• "Accident, or (2) in what is termed Homoeoteleuton where lines or sentences ended with the same word or the same syllable, or (3) such as arose in writing from Uncial letters, or (4) in the confusion of vowels and diphthongs which is called Itacism, or (5) in Liturgical Influence."
• "The first video (10 min.) is an introduction to the alphabet, with explanations of the names of the letters and where they came from; the second (just a couple of minutes, created because YouTube cut his first off at ten minutes) is a continuation, discussing the diphthongs; and the third, "Gaitsugja Meins" [ 'My chupacabras'] (5 min.), is a dialogue with explanations of grammar."