Actually, at least according to Merriam-Webster, it’s slightly different.
Both pronunciations are noted as acceptable for ‘diphthong,’ but the ‘dip-theria’ pronunciation is marked with an obelus, indicating that that ‘some people’ frown upon that pronunciation. No such notation on ‘dip-thong’.
And Merriam-Webster notes in their pronunciation guide that order of pronunciation is not to be taken as order of preferred pronunciation.
My dragon has an angry verdigris pedigree. But it is always well-fed.
My favorite fact that I’ve learned from the excellent “Lexicon Valley” podcast is the etymology of “cockamamie”, as described here
A canner, exceedingly canny,
One morning remarked to his Granny,
“A canner can can
anything that he can,
but a canner can’t can a can, can he?”
From now on I’m making a point to pronounce all of these words with an “ee” sound at the end.
That includes “Okay,” “I,” “gotta,” and “ask.”
Somebody has to stop this madness.
Fair enough. Apropos of nothing, I used to work as a short order cook, and my specialty was strawberry shortcake.
I mean, of course, that I would only cook if you ordered me to do so using very short words, and I made a strawberry cake that was half an inch high.
Nice, but… in speech, isn’t it kind of unusual to say 2:02 as “two two”, as opposed to “two oh two”?
You just made the baby Jesus cry.
Oh, here’s one:
“It’s all downhill from here” can mean it’s getting better or it’s getting worse.
Hurry up down!
/'æŋ.grɪ/ and /'hʌŋ.grɪ/ seems common to me.
Can anyone provide a cite of someone pronouncing those as /'æŋ.rɪ/ and /'hʌŋ.rɪ/? There’s like a hundred billion videos on youtube. If there’s an English dialect that pronounces them that way, there oughta be video of it.
Side note to those posting in this thread: If you’re discussing pronunciation in text and you’re not using the phonetic alphabet, there’s approximately zero chance that you will reach any kind of consensus. It is not possible to clarify confusion over which words have which sounds by referencing other words when you start from a position of disagreeing on the fundamental sounds that words have.
Since I don’t know the phonetic alphabet I don’t know if this links show what you want or not, but there is this, which pronounces hungry the way I’m familiar with it (that doesn’t have the end sound of pedigree that I’m familiar with.)
Oops, and now I see that I just quoted the previously offered IPA spellings rather than verifying them.
What they say in the Hungry Hungry Hippos video is /ˈhʌŋ gri/, and that’s the sound I’m familiar with for the final vowel. And the sound for angry is /'æŋ gri/
Here, for reference, is the IPA vowel chart with audio on wikipedia. Which sound does the word “pedigree” end in for you? It ends in “i” for me, just like hungry and angry.
I’m on a slow speed connection right now and can’t do much media browsing, but as I’ve mentioned before, it is the end sound of tree, bee, knee, DVD, I gotta pee, etc.
Cool. I haven’t heard that in awhile. The way I heard it, though, was “to tutor two tooters” rather than “to teach two young tooters.”
This is NOT a direct quote from “Deliverance,” but I know I’ve heard it IRL as well as other TV/movies:
Take 'em right on off.
Just a few posts later, and we’re already lost in the weeds.
All those words you listed, and the words hungry, and angry, and pedigree, end in /i/ in my dialect.
English can be hard. It can be understood through tough, thorough thought though.
Also if you tell someone a pond is “deceptively shallow” no two people will agree on whether you mean it is more or less shallow than it looks.
If today is Tuesday, is “next Wednesday” tomorrow, or Wednesday of the following week?