This phenomenon never gained universal acceptance, however, so that while forms with the diphthong came to be accepted as standard Italian ( e. g. fuoco, buono, nuovo ), the monophthong remains in popular speech ( foco, bono, novo ).

In some formal situations ( such as when reading out from a text ), speakers may pronounce that weaker vowel, transforming the monophthong back into a diphthong.

Hypercorrection occurs when a speaker attempting to sound formal transforms a monophthong into a diphthong when it has always been a monophthong, even in written language.

In Sri Lankan English, they are mostly pronounced with the monophthong / oː / (/ o /-close-mid back rounded vowel ) as / noːt /, / boːt /… This form has received general recognition in the country.

These words, which are also pronounced with a diphthong as / teɪk /, / meɪd /… in BrE and AmE, are generally pronounced with the monophthong / eː /, as / teːk /, / meːd /… (/ e /-close-mid front unrounded vowel, / ɪ /-near-close near-front unrounded vowel )

* In Belfast, is a monophthong in open syllables ( e. g. day ) but a rising diphthong in closed syllables ( e. g. daze ).

* The monophthong of soul was raised to, merging with boat ( see tow – toe merger ).

The Great Vowel Shift changed the L-vocalized diphthongs to their present pronunciations, with becoming the monophthong, and raising to.

A change that separated Old East Norse ( Runic Swedish / Danish ) from Old West Norse was the change of the diphthong æi ( Old West Norse ei ) to the monophthong e, as in stæin to sten.

The English word yes, for example, consists of a palatal glide followed by a monophthong rather than a rising diphthong.

: Further explanation: The diphthong becomes the monophthong in some environments including before nasals ( e. g., downtown ), liquids ( e. g., fowl, hour ) and obstruents ( e. g., house, out, cloudy ).

The standard language has seven monophthong vowel phonemes.

* When a long vowel is followed by " r ", some speakers of Indian English usually use a monophthong, instead of the diphthong used for many such words in many other accents.

Eastern Armenian has six monophthong vowel sounds.

Western Armenian has eight monophthong vowel sounds.

* In Hull and much of the East Riding, the phoneme ( as in prize ) may become a monophthong before a voiced consonant.

* In some areas, especially in the southern half of Yorkshire, there is a tendency to pronounce the phoneme ( as in mouth ) as a monophthong.

eu: This digraph represents the diphthong which goes back to the Middle High German monophthong represented by iu.

A monophthong ( Greek monóphthongos from mónos " single " and phthóngos " sound ") is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.

Standard Swedish does not have any diphthong vowels, but many more monophthong vowels than English.

The Old Norse diphthong au ( e. g. auga " eye ") remained in Old Gutnish and Old West Norse, while in Old East Norse — except for peripheral dialects — it evolved into the monophthong ǿ, i. e. a long version of ǿ.

For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.

Finally, when the accelerometer output is zero, the entire system remains stationary, and the platform is, by definition, leveled.

But the fact remains that in most restaurants, including some of the best of Paris and Bordeaux and Dijon, the bottle is frankly and simply brought from the cellar to the table when ordered, and all the conditioning or preparation it ever receives takes place while the chef is preparing the meal.

The perplexing question still remains as to why the middle classes turn to the churches as a vehicle of social identity when their clubs and charities should fill the same need.

In both cases the stubborn fact remains: liberalism gave birth to two brilliant apostates, both legitimate offspring of its loins, and when brought to the test, it behaved shabbily.

Bradman fulfilled his promise in the 1930 series when he scored 974 runs at 139. 14, which remains a world record Test series aggregate.

It is alleged, too, that at a time when the influence of Ambrose required vigorous support, he was admonished in a dream to search for, and found under the pavement of the church, the remains of two martyrs, Gervasius and Protasius.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

... A Fire Upon the Deep remains a favourite and a delight to re-read, absorbing even when I know exactly what ’ s coming.

Amdahl's law is a model for the relationship between the expected speedup of parallelized implementations of an algorithm relative to the serial algorithm, under the assumption that the problem size remains the same when parallelized.

For example, when one removes a price label, the adhesive usually remains on the label and the surface.

Another example is when someone tries to pull apart Oreo cookies and all the filling remains on one side ; this is an adhesive failure, rather than a cohesive failure.

If the above errors be eliminated, the two astigmatic surfaces united, and a sharp image obtained with a wide aperture — there remains the necessity to correct the curvature of the image surface, especially when the image is to be received upon a plane surface, e. g. in photography.

This assumption is justified if a poor image on the focusing screen remains stationary when the aperture is diminished ; in practice, this generally occurs.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

Nonetheless, the historical distinction between " law " and " equity " remains important today when the case involves issues such as the following:

( Codification is the process of enacting a statute that collects and restates pre-existing law in a single document — when that pre-existing law is common law, the common law remains relevant to the interpretation of these statutes.

In these courts, the older decision remains controlling when an issue comes up the third time.

If the trip mechanism is operated when the clutch would otherwise disengage the clutch remains engaged.

This remains the oldest stand ( dating back to 1905 ) not only in the Football League, but in the professional world and is thus a Grade II * listed building thanks to Jimmy Hill's efforts when saving the almost-bankrupt club as Chairman.

If the column load is gradually increased, a condition is reached in which the straight form of equilibrium becomes so-called neutral equilibrium, and a small lateral force will produce a deflection that does not disappear and the column remains in this slightly bent form when the lateral force is removed.

The parasite remains viable at 4 ° C for at least 18 days or up to 250 days when kept at room temperature.

These include Quanterness chambered cairn ( 3250 BC ) in which the remains of 157 individuals were found when excavated in the 1970s, Cuween Hill near Finstown which was found to contain the bones of men, dogs and oxen and Wideford Hill cairn, which dates from 2000 BC.

This allows half the tag to be collected for notification while the other half remains with the body when battle conditions do not allow the casualty to be immediately recovered.

It remains unclear when, why, and by whom the earliest dolmens were made.