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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>
<a href="esl0105h.html"><img src="ph20.gif" width=75 height=30></a></p>

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<p><u>Words with common or rhyming diphthong as final sound</u></p>

<p><img src="ph14.gif"> as in sky, buy, cry, tie.</p>
<p>acetify <br />
acidify<br />
aerify<br />
air-dry<br />
algae<br />
alibi<br />
alkali<br />
ally<br />
amplify<br />
apple-pie<br />
apply<br />
aqua vitae<br />
arbor-vitae<br />
Ardingly<br />
awry<br />
ay<br />
aye-aye<br />
barfly<br />
beatify<br />
beautify<br />
beddy-bye<br />
belie<br />
bi-<br />
Birds Eye®<br />
bird's-eye<br />
blackfly<br />
blowdry<br />
blowfly<br />
blue-sky<br />
Bly<br />
Blyth<br />
bone-dry<br />
bonsai<br />
Brunei<br />
butterfly<br />
buy<br />
by <br />
by-and-by<br />
bye<br />
bye-bye (goodbye) <br />
bye-bye (sleep) <br />
calcify<br />
camera-shy<br />
cat's-eye<br />
CBI<br />
certify<br />
Chiang Mai<br />
Chou En-lai<br />
clarify<br />
classify<br />
cockeye<br />
cockshy<br />
codify<br />
colossi<br />
comply<br />
crucify<br />
cry<br />
curricula vitae<br />
curriculum vitae<br />
cut-and-dry<br />
cutie-pie<br />
damnify<br />
dandify<br />
deadeye<br />
decalcify<br />
declassify<br />
decry<br />
deep-fry<br />
defy<br />
deify<br />
demy<br />
demystify<br />
deny<br />
descry<br />
detoxify<br />
Di<br />
dignify<br />
disqualify<br />
dissatisfy<br />
diversify<br />
DIY<br />
dragonfly<br />
dramatis personae<br />
drip-dry<br />
drive-by<br />
dry<br />
Dubai<br />
dulcify<br />
duply<br />
dye<br />
E coli<br />
edify<br />
electrify<br />
Eli<br />
EMI®<br />
emulsify<br />
espy<br />
exemplify<br />
eye <br />
falsify<br />
FBI<br />
firefly<br />
fisheye<br />
flash-fry<br />
fly<br />
flyby<br />
fortify<br />
four-ply<br />
freeze-dry<br />
frenchify<br />
fructify<br />
fry<br />
gadfly<br />
genii (from genius) <br />
gentrify<br />
GI<br />
gladioli<br />
glorify<br />
glutei<br />
go-by<br />
goldeneye<br />
goodbye <br />
gratify<br />
greenfly<br />
grisaille<br />
guy<br />
Guy<br />
Hawkeye<br />
hereby<br />
hi<br />
hi-fi<br />
high<br />
hippopotami<br />
horrify<br />
horsefly<br />
housefly<br />
hoverfly<br />
humidify<br />
hushaby<br />
I<br />
ICI®<br />
identify<br />
imply<br />
indemnify<br />
intensify<br />
I-spy<br />
jollify<br />
July<br />
justify<br />
knee-high <br />
lay-by<br />
Levi<br />
lie <br />
liquify<br />
lullaby<br />
lye<br />
magnify<br />
magpie<br />
mayfly<br />
medfly<br />
Menai<br />
minutiae<br />
misapply<br />
modify<br />
mollify<br />
mortify<br />
multiply<br />
mummify<br />
my <br />
mystify<br />
nearby<br />
necktie<br />
nigh<br />
no-fly<br />
notify<br />
nuclei<br />
nullify<br />
objectify<br />
occupy<br />
ossify<br />
outcry<br />
overfly<br />
oversimplify<br />
oversupply<br />
oxeye<br />
pacify<br />
pan-fry<br />
Paraguay<br />
passer-by<br />
passers-by<br />
personae<br />
personify<br />
petrify<br />
pi<br />
pie<br />
pigsty<br />
pink-eye<br />
ply<br />
Popeye<br />
preachify<br />
premodify<br />
preoccupy<br />
prettify<br />
pry<br />
psi<br />
pulpify<br />
purify<br />
putrefy<br />
qualify<br />
quantify<br />
rabbi<br />
radii<br />
ramify<br />
rarefy<br />
ratify<br />
reapply<br />
rectify<br />
red-eye<br />
rely<br />
reoccupy<br />
reply<br />
retry<br />
reunify<br />
revivify<br />
rye<br />
Rye<br />
salsify<br />
Samurai<br />
sanctify<br />
sandfly<br />
satisfy<br />
scarify<br />
sci-fi<br />
scry<br />
sell-by<br />
semi-<br />
Shanghai<br />
shut-eye<br />
shy<br />
sigh<br />
signify<br />
simplify<br />
Sinai<br />
sky<br />
Sky®<br />
Skye<br />
sky-high<br />
sly<br />
solemnify<br />
solidify<br />
specify<br />
speechify<br />
spin-dry<br />
spry<br />
spy<br />
standby<br />
stir-fry<br />
stratify<br />
stultify<br />
stupefy<br />
sty<br />
stye<br />
subclassify<br />
supply<br />
syllabify<br />
taille<br />
terrify<br />
testify<br />
Thai<br />
thereby<br />
thigh<br />
three-ply<br />
thunderfly<br />
thy<br />
tie<br />
tie-dye<br />
transmogrify<br />
try<br />
tumble-dry<br />
tumefy<br />
twist-tie<br />
two-ply<br />
typify<br />
UDI<br />
uglify<br />
underbuy<br />
under-eye<br />
underlie<br />
unify<br />
untie<br />
Uruguay<br />
verify<br />
Versailles (France) <br />
versify<br />
vie<br />
vilify<br />
vitae curriculum<br />
vitrify<br />
vivify<br />
waist-high<br />
wall-eye<br />
war-cry<br />
weather-eye<br />
well-nigh<br />
whereby<br />
whitefly<br />
why<br />
WI<br />
wi-fi<br />
work-shy<br />
wry<br />
Wye<br />
y<br />
Y<br />
yuppify</p>


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