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Diphthongs and relevant examples

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Lake, make, shake, take, fake, grace, cake, break, brake, base, ace, race, late, date, raid, made, trait, trade, grade, blade.

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Cry, fry, try, why, my, dry, buy, lie, die, tie, shy, guy, buy, by, sky, buy, cry, tie

Choice, boy, toy, joy, hoist, alloy, deploy, destroy, employ, envoy, loyal, ploy, royal, story, troy, voyage, foyers, buoy.

!one, phone, gone, bone, note, wrote, shot, bore, tore, shore, load, road, coat, toad, coal, moan, coach, loan, grown, thrown, own,

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Goat, toe, tow, soul, rope, cold, bow, go, boat, show, foam.

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"ow, cow, how, brown, crown, allow, bowl, down, grow, know, plow, slow, snow, town, growl.

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#eal, tear, spear, fear, bear, rear, carrier, appear, deer, dear, linear, beer.

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$air, spare, gear, rare, hear, here, near, bare, dare, fare, share, air, mayor, slayer.

%ure, cure, tour, poor, blower, lower, adjure, impure, insure, mature, obscure, secure, ensure.

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'ctual, punctual, gradual, schedule, factual, e(ual, effectual, individual, mutual, visual, punctual, residual, ritual, usual, virtual, spiritual, dual, annual, casual, conceptual.

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peculiar, familiar, foliar, billiard, conciliar, mafia, phobia, ammonia, inertia.

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