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Definition of Digraphs
1. digraph [n] - See also: digraph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digraphs
Literary usage of Digraphs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reading Process by William Anton Smith (1922)
"Irregularities in case of digraphs.—The many digraphs, as Professor ... digraphs in
which u is the first letter have their own peculiar irregularities. ..."
2. English Spelling and Spelling Reform by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1909)
"For we come now to the consideration of those combinations of letters, numerous
in English spelling, to which has been given the name of digraphs. ..."
3. A Plea for Spelling Reform: A Series of Tracts Comp. from the Phonetic by Isaac Pitman (1878)
"Vowel digraphs. After all the complication and confusion which we have ...
Besides the separate vowel-signs, there are digraphs, or combinations of two ..."
4. A Practical Grammar of the English Language by Thomas Wadleigh Harvey (1878)
"There are twenty-five digraphs, viz.: aa, Canaan; ae, Gaelic; ai, gain; ao, gaol;
a«, maul; aw, maw; ay, may; ea, meat; ee, need; ei, ceiling: eo, people; ..."
5. Aids to the Pronunciation of Irish by Christian Brothers (1905)
"... of digraphs in Irish, for it is frequently necessary to join a slender consonant
to a broad vowel, and vice versa. The digraphs used in Modern Irish are ..."
6. Advanced Elocution: Designed as a Practical Treatise for Teachers and by J. W. Shoemaker, George Beswick Hynson, John Hendricks Bechtel (1913)
"digraphs The five vowels, with their various markings, represent eighteen ...
The remaining eleven sounds are represented by digraphs. ..."
7. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"... from the true diphthongs, which means double founding, I (hall take the liberty
of coining a new word, and Shall call them digraphs, or double written. ..."
8. Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford by Oxford University Press, Horace Hart, James Augustus Henry Murray, Henry Bradley (1905)
"digraphs x and a> should each be printed as two letters in Latin and Greek words,
eg Aeneid, Aeschylus, Caesar, Oedipus; and in English, as mediaeval, ..."
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