Talk:Cent(e)ring diphthong

This article should be renamed to centring diphthong, because the majority of non-rhotic dialects use these diphthongs. Non-rhotic dialects are: southern England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and New England. And the majority of these dialects use BE spelling. -- Mark 03:15, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * The Boston accent also uses centering diphthongs and they use American spelling. So, I vote to stick with centering diphthong. Centering diphthongs can also exist in rhotic accents though, for example, many Northeastern U.S. accents have /e@/ in fast, can't, dance, mad etc. in contrast to the /{/ in lad, cat etc.

But they (Bostonians) are the minority not the majority as I stated above and so this article should be renamed. They (NE US) are also the minority, if in fact they actually use any centring diphthongs. Also please sign your name. -- Mark 03:47, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, even in rhotic accents the centering diphthong /I@/ is commonly heard in the word idea. Steve Jun 13, 2005

Well, I guess we'll just have two articles then. Steve Jun 13 2005

I'm moving the article to cent(e)ring diphthong. That includes both spellings. Steve Jun 13, 2005

I'm merging this article with diphthong; centering diphthongs are not notable enough for a separate article of their own, and having two separate articles cent(e)ring diphthong and centring diphthong is just silly. P.S. Rhotic accents do not have the centering diphthong /I@/ in idea; it's a three-syllable word /aI.di.@/. --Angr/undefined 28 June 2005 05:10 (UTC)