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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the sound, intonation, and stress of how words are uttered or produced.
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Letter "i" and its sounds
The vowels in particular don't match very well, because English has lots of variance in vowel pronunciation between dialects and also because of the Great Vowel Shift. … However, there are rules which can be used to guess at the pronunciation. These rules are mere hints and there will be many exceptions. …