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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>
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<a href="esl0105d.html"><img src="ph16.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="ph17.gif"> as in bear (the animal), pair and hair.</p>
 <p>affair <br />
aftercare<br />
air<br />
Aire<br />
airfare<br />
air-to-air<br />
ampere<br />
ampère<br />
Ampère<br />
ant-bear<br />
anywhere<br />
armchair<br />
Astaire<br />
au contraire<br />
au pair<br />
aware<br />
Ballyclare<br />
bare<br />
Baudelaire<br />
beachchair<br />
beachwear<br />
bear<br />
beware<br />
billionaire<br />
Blair<br />
blare<br />
br'er<br />
bugbear<br />
cafetière<br />
camelhair<br />
Camembert<br />
care<br />
carfare<br />
chair<br />
chare<br />
chargé d'affaires<br /> 
Cher<br />
childcare<br />
Claire<br />
Clare<br />
co-heir<br />
compare<br />
compère<br />
cookware<br />
corsair<br />
cuisenaire<br />
Dan-Air®<br />
dare<br />
daycare<br />
de la Mare<br />
debonair<br />
deckchair<br />
declare<br />
Delaware<br />
Delftware<br />
derrière<br />
despair<br />
devil-may-care<br />
disrepair<br />
doctrinaire<br />
earthenware<br />
éclair<br />
Edgware<br />
e'er<br />
elsewhere<br />
enamelware<br />
ensnare<br />
ere<br />
étagère<br />
everywhere<br />
extraordinaire<br />
Eyre<br />
eyre<br />
fair<br />
Fair<br />
fanfare<br />
fare  <br />
Ferrer<br />
fieldfare<br />
Finisterre<br />
firmware<br />
flair<br />
flare<br />
flatware<br />
Flaubert<br />
Folies Bergère<br />
footwear<br />
forbear<br />
forswear<br />
foursquare<br />
freeware<br />
Frigidaire®<br />
funfair<br />
Furbear<br />
glare<br />
glassware<br />
Gruyère<br />
hair<br />
hardware<br />
hare<br />
Hare<br />
healthcare<br />
hectare<br />
heir<br />
Herr<br />
highchair<br />
Hilaire<br />
horsehair<br />
impair<br />
ironware<br />
jardinière<br />
jobshare<br />
kitchenware<br />
knitwear<br />
ladieswear<br />
lair<br />
laissez-faire<br />
legionnaire<br />
lehr<br />
lumière<br />
mare<br />
Mayfair<br />
mayor<br />
Medicare<br />
menswear<br />
Meyer<br />
midair<br />
millionaire<br />
mohair<br />
Molière<br />
Mothercare®<br />
multimillionaire<br />
mynheer<br />
neckwear<br />
ne'er<br />
Niger (country) <br />
nightmare<br />
nightwear<br />
nowhere<br />
open-air <br />
outerwear<br />
outstare<br />
outwear<br />
ovenware<br />
overbear<br />
pair<br />
pare<br />
parterre<br />
pear<br />
pere<br />
père<br />
Pierre (name) <br />
ploughshare<br />
plowshare<br />
portière<br />
prayer (supplication) <br />
première<br />
prepare<br />
pushchair<br />
questionnaire<br />
Rambert<br />
rare<br />
ready-to-wear<br />
repair<br />
Ryanair®<br />
Santander<br />
savoir faire<br />
scare<br />
setsquare<br />
share<br />
shareware<br />
she-bear<br />
silverware<br />
Sinclair<br />
skincare<br />
snare<br />
software<br />
solitaire<br />
somewhere<br />
son et lumière<br />
spare<br />
sportswear<br />
square<br />
stair<br />
stare<br />
stoneware<br />
surface-to-air<br />
swear<br />
swimwear<br />
Swissair®<br />
tableware<br />
tare<br />
tear <br />
tee-square<br />
their <br />
there <br />
they're<br />
thoroughfare<br />
threadbare<br />
Tiananmen Square<br />
timeshare<br />
Tupperware®<br />
unaware<br />
underwear<br />
unfair<br />
vapourware<br />
Vermeer<br />
Voltaire<br />
ware<br />
warfare<br />
wear v<br />
welfare<br />
Weston-super-Mare<br />
whate'er<br />
whatsoe'er<br />
wheelchair<br />
whene'er<br />
where<br />
where'er<br />
wheresoe'er<br />
whoe'er<br />
womenswearv
workfare<br />
yeah</p>


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