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Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
a combination of two letters or other symbols used to represent a single speech sound, for example,
ph
in
digraph
or
ea
in
head
. The corresponding term
trigraph
refers to three letters or symbols, for example,
tth
in
Matthew
. See also
diphthong
.
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