Dipthongs

A dipthong is a coalescence of two vowels into one syllable, as æ, œ. The Eglish language is, happily, unencumbered by these combinations of letters. Some Printers, however, use them in such words as archæology, mediæval, manœuvre, &c., forgetting that æ and œ do not differ in sound from the simple vowel e; they are in such words, utterly worthless, and no better than a mere pedantic encumbrance. They have already been excised from such words as cemetery, celestial, economical, ether, &c., but they may be retained in proper names, as Cæsar, Phœnicia, &c.