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How to pronounce digraphs in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms digram
Type of alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet

Examples of digraphs

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Sch is usually not treated like a true trigraph, neither are ch and qu digraphs.
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For recording of soft consonants, digraphs are replaced by a dot above letters.
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The impetus for removing digraphs is so each letter represents a single sound.
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Neither the digraphs nor accented letters are considered part of the alphabet.
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Because vowels are not generally written, digraphs are rare in abjads like Arabic.
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In practice, the Spanish digraphs were considered as their two constituent letters.
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Some letters and digraphs have different names in the North and in the South.
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In Catalan, the digraphs ai, ei, oi, au, eu, and iu are normally read as diphthongs.
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Vowels are transcribed with a number of digraphs though few are innovations.
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More examples
  • Two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
  • In computer programming, digraphs and trigraphs are sequences of two and three characters respectively which are interpreted as one character by the programming language.
  • A directed graph or digraph is a pair (sometimes) of: * a set V, whose elements are called vertices or nodes, * a set A of ordered pairs of vertices, called arcs, directed edges, or arrows (and sometimes simply edges with the corresponding set named E instead of A).
  • A digraph or digram (from the Greek: u03B4u03AFu03C2 du00EDs, "double" and u03B3u03C1u03ACu03C6u03C9 gru00E1phu014D, "to write") is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
  • This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalization involves only the first letter (ch becomes Ch) unless otherwise stated (ij becomes IJ).
  • A directed graph
  • (digraphs) Two letters that represent one speech sound, such as ch for /ch/ in chin or ea for /e/ in bread.
  • (Digraphs) A plaintext character pairing technique that prevents frequency analysis of commonly occurring pairs such as 'qu'. Note that trigraphs (three characters at a time) is an extension of the theme.
  • (Digraphs) Two consonants which create one sound. Example: ch, gh, sh, th, wh