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1. Short and long i

a. Short i, Le. (il

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Fig. 7. Engjish |i), longue posidon

Fig 8. Poddon of the lips

as siei, pień wiei. It is faidy short. It must not be replaced by Polish t

§ 16. This vowcl is rather similar to Polish y, and for this reason in some Polish publications it is transcribed with the symbol [yj. It is only a litde * lower and- morę front than Polish y (hence its description: half-close front), and sounds somewhat similar to the raised Polish e in such w ord

and the preceding consonant is not to be palatalized. It occure in bot stTessed and unstressed syllables.

Examples:

[i] in streased syllables:

pkk. kick, sick, brick, diek, lick. Dick, quick. slick, bit, fit, sit, spit, fix, six, muc, tip, lip, dip, tiip, rich, ship, kiss, miss, ink, pink, drink, sink, sdnk, link, inek, pinefa, wish, fish, cliff, stiff, gift, swift, fiat B. [i] in streased and unstressed syllables:

finiah, risit, pienie, critic, vicdm, linguist, spirit, fifty, pity, windy, ticket, cricket, sickness, biggest, richest, wishes, swiftest

Notę 1. In the position before voiced consonants [i] is a litde. longer than before voicdese consonants, e.g.:

big, fig, twig, pig, dig, bid, lid, kid, did, mb, crib, bridge, ridge Compare: bit bid pick pig Dick dig rich ridge

Notę 2. In the position before nasal consonants [m, n, ij], [i] should In- pronounced without nasalization. It should be pronounced as before tither voiced consonants, Le. slightly longer:

brim, dim, slim, swim, in, chin, skin, tin, sin, Finn, Sting, swing, wing, wind, drink, link, inch, pinch, sińce, wince, singe

Notę 3. In the position before l realized as so-called dark [1], before a puuse or a consonant, [i] is almost identical with Polish y:

mili, bill, will, ill, stul, kill, pili, biU, fUl, mUk

Notę 4. [i] is longer when it occurs in one-syllable words than in words uf two or morę syllables:

big biggest rich richest sick sickness wind windy tick ticket Notę 5. Finał [i], however, is a little longer and somewhat lowered Ntpi-i ially when preceded by a syllable with a short vowel and a single Bonsonant:

pity, city, lily, silly*, chilly, windy, fifty, sixty

b. Long ■, ke. (ej

Fig. 10. Position of the lips

Swede, scene, scheme, theme, these, bee, fee, sec, consonant letters, 8 65

[i:] is similar to Polish i, but noticeably longer. It sounds of i merged into one vowel sound, the last part being

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