as in <BAY> as in <BUY> as in <BOY> Listen

Listen: These three diphthongs are on the whole pretty easy for Norwegians, but the glide is generally shorter in English than in Norwegian. Compare the following word pairs:

NORW.: -------- ENGLISH:

Mai -------------- my
meg -------------- May
hei ---------------- hay
Roy -------------- Roy

Regional variant: With many speakers in the northern part of the British Isles the is a monophthong, not a diphthong, so that late becomes and race becomes .

SPELLING BOX: : <a>, <ai>, <ay>,(<ei>, <ey>) late, paid, pay, sleigh, they : <i>, <y> line, my : <oi>, <oy> moist, toy