Associations to the word «Monophthongal»

Wiktionary

MONOPHTHONGAL, adjective. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a monophthong.
MONOPHTHONGAL, adjective. (linguistics) (of a vowel) Pronounced as a single vowel sound; said especially of a vowel that is otherwise normally pronounced as a diphthong.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope