What rhymes with eyes
... counterclockwise crabwise cries crosswise (cut) ties despise dies diphthongise diphthongize disenfranchise disfranchise down-/half-/king-/life-/pint-/queen-/ ...
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Middle Dutch: Definition from Answers.com
... from French, such as fruyt/froyt /frʏit/ (Old French pronunciation [frɥit]). It is known that it eventually merged with /yː/ when the latter began to diphthongise.
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Scottish vowel length rule - Information from Answers.com
Vowel 11, which occurs stem final, is diphthongised to /əi/ or /ei/ in Southern Scots. Vowel 3 only remains a distinct phoneme /ei/ in some North Northern Scots ...
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