something note lining up with that story, that F-15 has US heraldry (MO is the digraph for USAF aircraft assigned to Mountain Home) why would a Singapore owned F-15 have USAF digraph and tail #?

ha, using the digraph form of the stringize operator is a lovely touch. the variadic capture is doing the heavy lifting too so the comma in hello world does not split into two arguments. cursed but completely legal. the preprocessor will happily build your string for you

idk what that word means but id imagine if u tried anagramming it into another word ud b keen on using a ck digraph

The word "fifth" is only five letters. For a beginning English learner, it's a maze. The vowel. The digraph. The pronunciation. The meaning. The context. Sometimes the hardest words are hiding in plain sight. #ESL #TeachingEnglish

the th sound is so funny to me because it’s like not only does english have a difficult to pronounce sound that only like 10% of languages use, it’s also the most common digraph in the language and is in a good chunk of the most important words. the. this. that. with. thing.

The letter m in Irish makes the same sound as in English, this only changes when it appears as the digraph mh were it then sounds like a /v/. The h indicates lenition which alters the initial consonant, this is a consistent feature of the languages grammar/orthography

In the context of written production, I don't see the point of reforming written lenition to be less digraph heavy when we're so generally accustomed to them already. Seems like it'd be a lot of spilled ink for a debatable gain

On the Spectra of Digraph Laplacians Saeed Akbary, Michael Cavers, Farzad Maghsoudi, Babak Miraftab arxiv.org/abs/2606.10312 [𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚑.𝙲𝙾]

When it's a part of a digraph (two letters making one sound) with a vowel it's also considered a vowel. Words like now, dew, sew, and so on.

When "W" is next to a vowel and they make a single sound, it's part of a "vowel team" or "digraph" and is considered a vowel. Think words like "cow," "new," and "saw."

For example the 'ie' I used wouldn't be a digraph, but just indicate a "default long" reading of 'i' (/i/) before the short 'e', since /ɪ/ can't appear there anyways.

On the Spectra of Digraph Laplacians arXiv:2606.10312 Domination in Johnson graphs J(n, 3) for odd n arXiv:2606.10326 On a Conjecture of Shapiro arXiv:2606.10391

"Why do you teach kids to pronounce 'ele' as 'eel'?" This is a great question from one of our customers! Most people are used to seeing reading taught as a series of explicit rules (eg "when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking"), almost as though you were trying to program a computer. But your brain isn't a computer, consciously executing a series of rules. What your brain is really good at is unconscious pattern recognition. "Gan" and "rogs" are made-up words, but you still know to change the pronunciation of the "a" and the "s" even if you don't know why. (You might not even realize you're changing the letters' pronunciation!) The academic literature likes to call this "statistical pattern recognition" but that's a needlessly fancy term. The implication for teaching reading is that rather than teaching conscious rules, it's more effective to drill pattern recognition. That's why Mentava doesn't teach rules like "silent e makes the vowel say its name". Instead, I prefer to use the split digraph method where kids first learn to recognize a pattern like "ee" as a long e, and then learn to recognize "e_e" (eve, pete, theme, etc) as another long e pattern. Initially, uncommon/nonsense patterns like "ae" or "ele" help train this pattern. Once the child masters the split digraph pattern, then those weirder combinations disappear from the curriculum and the focus can be on actual words.

When you encounter a word from a rare or endangered foreign language, especially those that only got a latin alphabet recently, and that word has a digraph or trigraph that contains the letter L, it's usually this sound. The aztec word a(tl)a(tl) and the muscogee (Thl)op(thl)occo

6yr old thinks I'm stupid as I had no idea what a split Digraph was.

AR is effectively a digraph representing the low back unrounded vowel, /ɑ/, in British English. Think of it like SH, or CH, or TH, or NG.

A digraph is a single sound represented by a two letter spelling - ay in day is a digraph, oa in boat is a digraph, ie in pie is a digraph There isn’t a digraph in pasta but the spelling <a> can represent the sound /ar/ in some accents. One sound not rhotic

“ar” is basically a digraph in RP, if a Brit says “Americans pronounce it ‘parsta’” they are not saying you pronounce it with a rhotic R, they’re saying you use a more back vowel like an “ah” sound like in “father” rather than front sound like a or æ in “cat”