How now brown cow

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File:RP English diphthongs chart.svg
Vowel diagram for English diphthongs including /aʊ/, charting tongue height and position during articulation

"How now brown cow" is a phrase used in elocution teaching since at least 1926[1] to demonstrate the diphthong /aʊ/.[2]

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  1. ^ Bagley, Louie: "Elocution do's and dont's", Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1926
  2. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).


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