how to understand the “dip-thongs？Frida snorted over the sink..."?
“You sound pretty English,” said Frida, scooping up Ruth’s empty mug. “You sound a bit like the Queen.”
Ruth had a soft spot for the Queen. “That’s ridiculous,” she said. “Listen: ‘How now brown cow.’ That’s how I say it. And this is how the Queen would say it: ‘How now brown cow.’ Listen to her diphthongs! Totally different!”

“Dip- thongs?” Frida snorted over the sink. And suddenly it was a funny, stupid, dirty word, and Ruth was laughing, and she loved it, although it hurt her back.

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how to understand the “dip-thongs？Frida snorted over the sink..."?
“You sound pretty English,” said Frida, scooping up Ruth’s empty mug. “You sound a bit like the Queen.”
Ruth had a soft spot for the Queen. “That’s ridiculous,” she said. “Listen: ‘How now brown cow.’ That’s how I say it. And this is how the Queen would say it: ‘How now brown cow.’ Listen to her diphthongs! Totally different!”

“Dip- thongs?” Frida snorted over the sink. And suddenly it was a funny, stupid, dirty word, and Ruth was laughing, and she loved it, although it hurt her back.

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Apart from diphthong there are also triphones with a sequence of three phonemes. Examples: quiet  /ˈkwaɪət/, fire /faɪər/, fewer  /ˈfyuər/ etc.

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Diphthong = a vowel sound in which the tongue changes position to produce the sound of two vowels; a combination of two vowel sounds or vowel letters, for example the sounds /aɪ/ in pipe /paɪp/ or the letters ou in doubt

Dipthong in the other hand is more or less a dirty word and it can have many different meanings.
See: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dipthong

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