English spellings > Catalogs > Retro I
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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 pî
girls’ names tend to end in -i or -ie, boys’ in -y: Térrì
*paparatsy paparázzi

