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Thought of one more that could be added here: diaper. I’m seeing both listed with an optional schwa after the /aɪ/, though both feel much more natural without the schwa in my variety of American English.
Diaper is an American word, we call the things babies wear nappies, sand so do the British, and we definitely pronounce it /di-a-per/ with a schwa, so it’s not the same as how we say diamond (di-mond/). Sorry my lists don’t match up with all your vocab or pronunciation!
Ah, didn’t realize that was just American! No need to apologize. It’s always interesting to see differences across dialects, both in terms of vocab and pronunciation. I’ve actually had a few interesting Wikipedia searches and learning based on words in your lists (mostly person/places names I wasn’t familiar with). Good stuff!
What about ‘is’ as in island? Is that another digraph for the I sound? Thank you.
Could the ia in diarrhoea be a long i sound? Or are you hearing it as a schwa – and if so, would most hear it as a schwa. Thank you
The Macquarie dictionary gives the pronunciation as “duyuh’reeuh” but I know lots of people only say one vowel before the /r/ so I guess you could argue that. Anyway I try not to put words that are VERY hard to spell on lists with words/patterns that are a lot easier, so I’ll keep ‘diarrhoea’ with ‘cirrhosis’ and ‘pyrrhic’ and not try to classify its first vowel spelling.