The Differences in Pronunciation in Modern English

latin loan words that originally would have been written with an o e ligerature include amiba, diarrhoea, gonerhea, oesophagus, economy, tragedy and phoenix. As we can see from this set of words, the vowels once represented by the o e ligature or the o e graph have resulted in a few different pronunciations in modern english. In words where the latin o e diagraph is followed by another vowel, it's pronounced as a long e. We see this in words like onomoto, pea and diarrhoea. Diarrhoea is one of those words that has lost its etymological o