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the dipthong ("squished-together vowels"...)
Or ligatures as US'ns sometimes Foolishly call them. We useta call them bind-runes, but that was way long ago.
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here you go Þen: þÞ
Not to mention Ð and ð.
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I'm with Bean on this, so we now have both the English Canadian contingent and the French Canadian contingent. I was taught to add the 'e' or else the 'g' would have to be pronounced as a hard 'g' as in growl and glow instead of a soft 'g' as in gem and Ginette  .
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a soft 'g' as in gem and GinettePerish the thought we should ever overlook that soft G spot 
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[gentle-reminder e] .. .and it's pronounced "diFthong." Oh, and Æ isn't one of them. The long A sound is. I guess Faldage's "ligature" is the right word for the written convention.
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"Perish the thought we should ever overlook that soft G spot "
Dear Maverick: You can't see it without a speculum, and it is not labelled.
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...and it is not labelled.Well, not visually, but perhaps auditorily? 
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we covered this long, long ago (a year? ) and i think we agreed that ligiture was the printers term. you can also use a ligiture for the cross bars of a double ff as in griffin, or for a double tt as in batter. so ligitures are not quite the same thing as diphthongs. (this font does a ligiture for F but not for T--oops yes it does when bold.. but not plain. tt.)
and why is Æ not one? Ætna is not a long A sound (etna)-- (butÆsops is A-sops.). so is æ a diphthohg some of the time?
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I agree with Helen, æ and similar characters are ligatures. Where two vowel sounds are pronounced together in a single syllable, e.g., hair, they make a diphthong. Where two letters are pronounced as a single sound, e.g., t and h is this, they are a digraph
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Where two letters are pronounced as a single sound, e.g., t and h is this, they are a digraph
Hence, æ is a ligature and a digraph!
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