👉 In linguistics, a diapause is a word or phrase that has both an initial and a final consonant sound. For example, in English, "dog" and "cat" are examples of diapauses because they have two consecutive vowels at the end of each word. In other languages, such as Spanish, Italian, French, German, etc., diapauses can be used to create words with multiple meanings or to indicate a specific grammatical role in a sentence.
