Pail has a long sound.
No. The AI vowel pair has a long A sound, as in pale.
Yes, "pail" has a short 'a' sound, pronounced as /eɪ/ in phonetics.
Yes. The AI pair is pronounced as a long A sound (same as pale).
They both have a long A sound (pail sounds like pale, and the AY in always).
No. The AI pair has a long A sound as in pail and pale, or sail and sale.
No. The AI vowel pair has a long A sound, as in pale.
The 'a' in Pale is a long sound (like Pail). The 'a' in pal is a short sound.
Yes, "pail" has a short 'a' sound, pronounced as /eɪ/ in phonetics.
Yes. The AI pair is pronounced as a long A sound (same as pale).
They both have a long A sound (pail sounds like pale, and the AY in always).
No. The AI pair has a long A sound as in pail and pale, or sail and sale.
The AI vowel pair has the long A sound (AY) as in pail and pale.
Yes, they both have a long A vowel sound. The same sound is heard in their homophones, reign and pale.
When doing short a sounds the letter a will make a sound such as in the word cat. In the word cat the a is making a short 'a' sound. To make the long a sound another vowel has to be changing or contradicting the a. Some long a words are - lake, take & make. There are many words with the long a sound that don't follow that pattern such as mail hail and hair as well as pail.
The only vowel in pal is the a. And that is a short vowel. With a long vowel it is pail.
In the word "pail," the letter "a" is followed by the letter "i" which often creates a long "a" sound in English. This is a common spelling pattern where the second vowel influences the pronunciation of the first vowel.
The A has a long A sound, and the I has a short I sound.