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Vowel sounds - the eight English diphthongs

Word lists to practise the vowel sounds in:

------day-----------sky-----------boy------------beer------------bear-----------tour------------go-------------cow

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Words with common or rhyming diphthong as final sound

as in all the words of "How now brown cow!".

allow
anyhow
avow
Bilbao
bough
bow (bending, front of ship)
bow (to lower head)
bow-wow (of a dog)
brow
cacao
chow
chow-chow
ciao
cow
disallow
disavow
disendow
Dow
endow
eyebrow
Frau
Guinea-Bissau
highbrow
holier-than-thou
how
How
know-how
kowtow
lowbrow
Mao
meow
miaow (noise of a cat)
middlebrow
moo-cow
nohow
now
plough
prow
row (quarrel)
scow
Slough
snowplough
somehow
sow (pig)
Spandau
Tao
thou (you)
vow
wow


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