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List ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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CZ cluster

This page lists pronunciations of English words that end in I. The list is in retroalphabetical order, that is, alphabetically beginning with the final letter of the word (in this case I) and continuing backwards through it.

Headwords are on the right, but otherwise entries read in the normal way, from left to right.

The apostrophe is treated as the last letter of the alphabet, after Z.[e]


-î or -ì

Dubaî

h sounded in Shanghaî

Ábu Dhàbì

rábbî

álibî

Sàùdì

likewise other plurals of -us: nûclêî

Hawàìì

Isrâeli

Disrâeli

*sémmy sémi

eat pîe = number

girls’ names tend to end in -i or -ie, boys’ in -y: Térrì

*paparatsy paparázzi

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