Except, that is, for "triphthong"?
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2 comments:
The history of the word is pretty awesome, as you might imagine. Check out the OED entry for it; since the OED isn't publicly accessible, I cached a copy of the entry.
Wow, yeah, it's easy to imagine how an aberration like "twelfth" could have come out of all that!
Thanks for posting!
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