Despite the silent E at the end, some words will still have a short vowel sound because of the root words, which for promise is the Latin promissum.
What happened is that it uses the Old French spelling (promise) and the Old English sound (promis).
No it's a short vowel sound. The A has a short sound as in cattle. The second syllable is a schwa.
Yes. The first A has a short A sound, and the second has a short I sound (cahb-ij).
The first E in "decent" has a long vowel sound. The second E has an unstressed (eh) or schwa sound.
No. The A has a long A vowel sound, as in caper. The -er is a schwa sound.
The first O has a long O sound and the second O has a short O sound.
The first O is short, the second O is a long (rhotic) O vowel sound.
The first I has a short I sound, the O has a long O sound, the second I is short, and the A has a schwa sound.
The I has a type of short U vowel sound, a caret U, and the second syllable has a schwa sound. (sur-kuhl)
Yes, "tyrant" contains a short vowel sound. The letter "y" in this word makes the short vowel sound /ɪ/, as in "sit" or "bit." The pronunciation of "tyrant" is /ˈtaɪrənt/, with the short vowel sound occurring in the second syllable.
The word "vacant" has a short vowel sound. In this case, the letter "a" is pronounced as /æ/, which is a short vowel sound. The short vowel sound is typically heard in closed syllables where the vowel is followed by a consonant.
"Climate" has a long vowel sound in the first syllable ("cli-") and a short vowel sound in the second syllable ("-mate").
Yes, the first of the three vowel sounds is short. The first I has a short I sound, the second I has a long E sound, and the A has a schwa sound (in-dee-un).