Timeline for How do I decide if an "i" is pronounced long or short?
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 6:45 | answer | added | Jade Joddle | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Apr 21, 2021 at 16:43 | comment | added | Kevin | emphatise? Did you mean empathize? Or maybe emphasize? | |
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| Apr 21, 2021 at 9:03 | comment | added | rjpond | For polysyllables you have to look at both stress patterns ( ell.stackexchange.com/questions/56396/… ) and trisyllabic laxing ( ell.stackexchange.com/questions/265605/… ). There are some words that can be pronounced either way though ("missile", "tactile" - for these two examples BrE favours the diphthong, AmE the monophthong, but I think there are some words where the preference is the other way round). | |
| Apr 21, 2021 at 8:32 | comment | added | rjpond | "Expertise" is a relatively recent borrowing from French ("machine" is also from French) so the "i" is /i:/ (which isn't short, but isn't diphthongised either). | |
| Apr 21, 2021 at 8:25 | comment | added | rjpond | A lot of very common words are exceptions to the general rules - like "give", "done", "are", "have" - but this doesn't change the fact that the patterns are there and often a good guide to how to pronounce 90% of monosyllables, and these rules form the basis of how a native speaker will guess the pronunciation - for example, if we've never come across the word "mive" or "gline" or "brile" before (I made these up), we'll give it a long (diphthongised) i. Polysyllablic words are more difficult - I'm sure there are rules and patterns, but less easy to generalise. | |
| Apr 21, 2021 at 8:06 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | I don't think there is one - you just have to learn the pronunciation of each word, I'm afraid. Live as a verb rhymes with give, but as an adjective (as in live animals) it rhymes with drive. | |
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| Apr 21, 2021 at 7:30 | history | asked | Patricia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |