Vowel the vowel sounds of "flower", , form a triphthong or disyllable, depending on dialect. In phonology, diphthongs and triphthongs are distinguished from sequences of monophthongs by whether the vowel sound may be analyzed into different phonemes or not. For example, the vowel sounds in a two-syllable pronunciation of the word "flower" () phonetically form a disyllabic triphthong, but are phonologically a sequence of a diphthong (represented by the letters ) and a monophthong (represented by the letters ). Some linguists use the terms "diphthong" and "triphthong" only in this phonemic sense. The name "vowel" is often used for the symbols
Types of Women as evidence as to early Greek attitudes towards women, it has received little scholarly attention and has generally been considered to be of little literary merit. Semonides was active during the seventh century BCE, though the "Types of Women" is preserved in the fifth-century CE "Anthology" of Joannes Stobaeus, which was first printed in 1535 by Vittore Trincavelli. The poem is 118 lines long, and written in iambic trimeter. The first 94 lines describe ten women, or types of women: seven are animals, two are elements, and the final woman is a bee. Of the ten types of women in