Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for June 09, 2022

But sibilants are sibilant, nasals are nasal, gutturals are guttural, plosives are plosive, and fricatives are fricative.

She won’t.

I’m not sure Onomatopoeia contains a true diphthong. I think that might be a triphthong.

It’s what happens when you ask questions authority can’t answer.

It’s been 50+ years since I heard of diphthongs in school. Since then, I never needed nor gave them a thought until I read today’s comic.

If I were teaching, that would have sounded like a great research project for Cynthia.

“Inconceivable!”

All fair and intelligent questions. She doesn’t deserve to be punished like a common Simpson.

I think onomatopoeia contains a tetraphthong since “oeia” has more than two sounds.

When I was a lad, my teachers would have said (erroneously) that the ph and th in diphthong are both diphthongs. I wonder how widespread that misapprehension about the meaning of diphthong was.

Why are there no zips on our lips?