The term "diaphone" first appeared in usage by phoneticians like Daniel Jones and Harold E. Palmer. Jones, who was more interested in transcription and coping with dialectal variation than with how cognitively real the phenomenon is, originally used "diaphone" to refer to the family of sounds that are realized differently depending on dialect but that speakers consider to be the same; an individual dialect or speaker's realization of this diaphone was called a "diaphonic variant". Because of confusion related to usage, Jones later coined the term "diaphoneme" to refer to his earlier sense of "diaphone" (the class of sounds) and used "diaphone" to refer to the variants.