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<h3>Vowel sounds - the eight English diphthongs</h3>


<p>Word lists to practise the vowel sounds in:</p>
<p><font color="#ffffff">------</font><a href="esl0105a.html">day</a><font color="#ffffff">-----------</font><a href="esl0105b.html">sky</a><font color="#ffffff">-----------</font><a href="esl0105c.html">boy</a><font color="#ffffff">------------</font><a href="esl0105d.html">beer</a><font color="#ffffff">------------</font><a href="esl0105e.html">bear</a><font color="#ffffff">-----------</font><a href="esl0105f.html">tour</a><font color="#ffffff">------------</font><a href="esl0105g.html">go</a><font color="#ffffff">-------------</font><a href="esl0105h.html">cow</a></p>
<p><a href="esl0105a.html"><img src="ph13.gif" width=75 height=30></a><font color="#ffffff">--</font>
<a href="esl0105b.html"><img src="ph14.gif" width=75 height=30></a><font color="#ffffff">--</font><a href="esl0105c.html"><img src="ph15.gif" width=75 height=30></a><font color="#ffffff">--</font>
<a href="esl0105d.html"><img src="ph16.gif" width=75 height=30></a><font color="#ffffff">--</font>
<a href="esl0105e.html"><img src="ph17.gif" width=75 height=30></a><font color="#ffffff">--</font>
<a href="esl0105f.html"><img src="ph18.gif" width=75 height=30></a><font color="#ffffff">--</font>
<a href="esl0105g.html"><img src="ph19.gif" width=75 height=30></a><font color="#ffffff">--</font>
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<p><u>Words with common or rhyming diphthong as final sound</u></p>


<p><img src="ph13.gif">  as in day, pay, say, lay.</p>

<p>a (the letter) <br />
A (the letter) <br />
AA (Alcoholics Anonymous or Automobile Association) <br />
affray<br />
airplay<br />
airway<br />
Alicante<br />
All Fools' Day<br />
All Saints' Day<br />
All Souls' Day<br />
allay<br />
alleyway<br />
alway<br />
andante<br />
André<br />
Angers<br />
Anglais<br />
anyway<br />
appellation contrôlée (French) <br />
appliqué<br />
après<br />
archway<br />
Archway<br />
array<br />
ashtray<br />
assay <br />
astray<br />
atelier<br />
attaché<br />
au fait<br />
aulae<br />
auto-da-fé<br />
avant-courier<br />
away<br />
ay<br />
BA<br />
backstay<br />
ballet<br />
Barclay<br />
bay<br />
Beaujolais<br />
Beaumarchais<br />
Bel Paese<br />
belay<br />
beltway<br />
Benedicite<br />
beret<br />
betray<br />
bidet<br />
birthday<br />
Biscay<br />
Bizet<br />
blasé<br />
bluejay<br />
bobsleigh<br />
bobstay<br />
Bolognese (Italian) <br />
Bombay<br />
bouclé<br />
Boulanger<br />
bouquet<br />
brae<br />
bray<br />
breakaway<br />
bridleway<br />
Broadway<br />
Bronte<br />
buffet (refreshment, sideboard) <br />
byplay<br />
byway<br />
cabaret<br />
cabriolet<br />
cachet<br />
cadre<br />
café<br />
Calais<br />
calzone<br />
Cambray<br />
canapé<br />
caraway<br />
carriageway<br />
Cartier<br />
castaway<br />
Castlerea<br />
causeway<br />
Chabrier<br />
chalet<br />
chambray<br />
Champs Elysées<br />
Chardonnay<br />
Charpentier<br />
chassé<br />
Chevalier (surname) <br />
chez<br />
chilli con carne<br />
CIA<br />
cinema verité<br />
clay<br />
clearway<br />
cliché
Club Méditerranée®<br />
coiffé<br />
Coldplay<br />
colourway<br />
communiqué<br />
companionway<br />
congé<br />
consommé<br />
convey<br />
Conway<br />
Corneille<br />
corps de ballet<br />
couchée<br />
crème brulée<br />
crochet<br />
croquet<br />
crossway<br />
croupier<br />
crudité(s) <br />
cum laude<br />
cutaway<br />
cy près<br />
cybercafe<br />
dapple-grey<br />
daresay<br />
day<br />
day-to-day<br />
D-Day<br />
de jure<br />
decay<br />
deejay<br />
defray<br />
déjeuner<br />
Del Monte®<br />
delay<br />
déshabillé<br />
Désirée<br />
devotee<br />
Didier<br />
disarray<br />
dismay<br />
disobey<br />
display<br />
distrait<br />
divorcé(e) <br />
divorcee<br />
DJ<br />
DNA<br />
dolce<br />
Domesday<br />
Don Quixote (Spanish) <br />
Doomsday<br />
doorway<br />
dossier<br />
Doubleday<br />
downplay<br />
driveaway<br />
driveway<br />
Du Maurier<br />
du Pré<br />
duce<br />
Dupré(e) <br />
Durante<br />
duvet<br />
eBay®<br />
eh<br />
Elysée<br />
embay<br />
émigré<br />
entrée<br />
entryway<br />
epee<br />
essay n (piece of writing) <br />
essay n, v (attempt) <br />
ETA (estimated time of arrival) <br />
everyday<br />
ex parte<br />
exposé<br />
expressway<br />
FA<br />
fairway<br />
faraday<br />
Faraday<br />
faraway<br />
fiancé(e) <br />
filet<br />
finale<br />
fireclay<br />
flageolet<br />
flambée<br />
flay<br />
flyaway<br />
flyway<br />
foldaway<br />
foray<br />
foreplay<br />
foyer<br />
franglais<br />
frappé<br />
fray<br />
freeway<br />
Friday<br />
frisé(e) <br />
fromage frais<br />
gainsay<br />
Galloway<br />
Galway<br />
gameplay<br />
gangway<br />
gateway<br />
gay<br />
g'day<br />
getaway<br />
giveaway<br />
glacé<br />
gourmet<br />
gray<br />
Gray<br />
Greenway<br />
grey<br />
habitué<br />
hairspray<br />
half-holiday<br />
halfway<br />
hallway<br />
hatchway<br />
Hathaway<br />
hay<br />
headway<br />
hearsay<br />
Hemingway<br />
hey<br />
heyday<br />
hideaway<br />
highway<br />
Hogmanay<br />
holiday<br />
Holloway<br />
hombre<br />
hooray<br />
horseplay<br />
hotelier<br />
hurray<br />
in capite<br />
infante<br />
inlay<br />
interplay<br />
in-tray<br />
IPA<br />
IRA<br />
irongray<br />
irongrey<br />
j<br />
jay<br />
jeté<br />
Jetway®<br />
JFK<br />
Jorge (Spanish name) <br />
José<br />
K<br />
Kingsway<br />
KKK(abbrev. for Ku Klux Klan) <br />
Kray<br />
LA<br />
Lanzarote<br />
latte<br />
latter-day<br />
lay<br />
layaway<br />
LEA<br />
leeway<br />
lei<br />
Ley<br />
lycée<br />
MA<br />
Maigret<br />
mainstay<br />
Malay<br />
Mandalay<br />
Marseilles<br />
martinet<br />
matchplay<br />
matinee<br />
May<br />
may (auxiliary verb) <br />
Mayday<br />
MBA<br />
Medway<br />
mêlée<br />
métier<br />
midday<br />
midway<br />
mislay<br />
Monday<br />
Monet (French artist) <br />
Monte<br />
Montefiore<br />
Montego Bay<br />
Montpellier (in France) <br />
Morgan le Fay<br />
mornay<br />
motorway<br />
Muscadet<br />
naïveté<br />
nay<br />
née<br />
negligé<br />
neigh<br />
Nescafé®<br />
Nestlé®<br />
noonday<br />
Norway<br />
nosegay<br />
nota bene<br />
NUJ<br />
Nupe (language and people) <br />
obey<br />
objet(s) <br />
OK<br />
okay<br />
olé<br />
Olivier<br />
one-way<br />
osprey<br />
Ottoway<br />
outlay<br />
out-of-the-way<br />
outplay<br />
outstay<br />
outweigh<br />
overlay<br />
overpay<br />
overplay<br />
overstay<br />
oyez<br />
PA<br />
padre<br />
padrone<br />
paise<br />
papier-mâché<br />
parfait<br />
parkway<br />
parlay<br />
parquet<br />
partway<br />
paso doble<br />
passageway<br />
passé(e) <br />
pâté<br />
Pathé<br />
pathway<br />
pavé<br />
pay<br />
payday<br />
Pelé<br />
penne<br />
per se<br />
Perrier®<br />
Piaget<br />
pianoforte<br />
Pinochet<br />
pipeclay<br />
piqué<br />
piquet (card game) <br />
play<br />
plié<br />
Poitiers<br />
Pompeii<br />
Pompey<br />
portray<br />
pray<br />
prepay<br />
present-day<br />
prêt-à-porter<br />
prey<br />
pro se<br />
protégé(e) <br />
PTA<br />
purée<br />
purvey<br />
Queensway<br />
Quixote<br />
Rabelais<br />
Radice<br />
railway<br />
Rambouillet<br />
ray<br />
Ray<br />
recherché<br />
reconvey<br />
red-letter day<br />
reggae<br />
relay<br />
Renée<br />
repay<br />
replay<br />
respray<br />
resumé<br />
Ridg(e)way<br />
right-of-way<br />
rights-of-way<br />
risqué<br />
roadway<br />
roleplay<br />
roman(s) à clef<br />
rosé<br />
RSA<br />
RSPCA<br />
runaway<br />
runway<br />
sachet<br />
San José<br />
Santa Fe<br />
São Tomé<br />
sashay<br />
satay<br />
saté<br />
Saturday<br />
sauté<br />
say<br />
Scorsese<br />
scray<br />
screenplay<br />
seaway<br />
segue<br />
sempre<br />
shay<br />
shipway<br />
Skara Brae<br />
slay<br />
sleigh<br />
slipway<br />
sluiceway<br />
soakaway<br />
soaraway<br />
sobriquet<br />
soirée<br />
Solway<br />
someday<br />
someway<br />
sorbet<br />
soubriquet<br />
soufflé<br />
spay<br />
speedway<br />
spray<br />
St. Tropez<br />
stairway<br />
stay<br />
stingray<br />
stowaway<br />
straightaway<br />
straightway<br />
stray<br />
strike-pay<br />
strokeplay<br />
subway<br />
Sunday<br />
sunray<br />
superhighway<br />
survey<br />
sway<br />
swordplay<br />
Taipei<br />
takeaway<br />
take-home pay<br />
taxiway<br />
Tay<br />
tearaway<br />
thataway<br />
they<br />
three-day<br />
throughway<br />
throwaway<br />
Thursday<br />
tideway<br />
Tigré<br />
today<br />
Torbay<br />
touché<br />
toupée<br />
tourniquet<br />
towaway<br />
trait<br />
tramway<br />
tray<br />
Tuesday<br />
two-way<br />
UK<br />
underlay<br />
underpay<br />
underplay<br />
underway<br />
unsay<br />
USA<br />
V and A(Victoria and Albert Museum) <br />
v.vide<br />
vale ("goodbye")<br />
valet<br />
V-E Day<br />
VJ-Day<br />
voce(in sotto voce) <br />
voce(in viva voce) <br />
volte<br />
walkaway<br />
walkway<br />
washday<br />
waterway<br />
way<br />
waylay<br />
Wednesday<br />
weekday<br />
weigh<br />
Wey<br />
whey<br />
Whitsunday<br />
wordplay<br />
workaday<br />
workday<br />
Xavier<br />
X-ray<br />
yesterday<br />
YMCA<br />
YWCA</p>





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