Talk:Centering 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 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)