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Does the” i ” have a long e sound in these words?
Is that because of the etymology of these words?
Is there a rule when to sound the i with long e sound?
Thx in advance
In my accent, yes, the sound is a “long” ee. I understand that this is because they are mostly loan words that came into English from other languages after the Great Vowel Shift, and retained their pronunciation and spelling. You can find out a lot about vowel spellings in the last few episodes of the History Of English podcast: here’s the first episode with this focus: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2020/09/24/episode-141-the-great-vowel-shift-part-1
Thx a lot for this amazing podcast ❤️ of the great vowel shift