Unit 7: Short vowels, Part 2: i, o and u
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/ī/ as in ice-cream. |  |
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How to spell the long /ī/ sound: |
| item | icon | idea | idol | iris | iron |
| ivy | ivory | crisis | final | pilot | silent |
Sometimes we add another letter. For example:
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| as in kite. | igh as in light. | y as in sky. | ie as in tie. |
| We use the split digraph i-e to make the i say its name. |
Sometimes we use the trigraph igh (three letters make one sound). | We can use y. | Four words use ie. |
| Some examples: bribe tribe hide wide bride life wife bike like file mile pile crime time fine whine* wine* shine spine ripe stripe rise wise bite* quite write* dive drive fire tire* wire admire desire entire require advise invite beside divide ...and many more |
Some examples: high nigh sigh thigh bright fight flight fright knight* might* night* plight right* sight* slight tight delight nightmare twilight highlight  height |
Some examples:
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die* lie pie tie These ie words are made by adding a suffix to words which end in -y. More on this in Unit 9. cries cried ties tied spies spied dries dried fries fried replies replied etc. |
| Notes: 1) Words marked * are homophones. See page 17. 2) Words ending in -ice are in Unit 20. |
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