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The vowel "I" at the beginning of a word is usually pronounced as a "long vowel" ("eye") when it is immediately followed by another vowel (e.g. ion, iambic), or begins with the Greek prefix "iso" (eye-so). In nearly every other case, the vowel "I" is a "short vowel" ("ih") when preceding a consonant (e.g. inner, imagine). Exceptions are"ichor", "irate", and three-letter words ending with "e" or "y" (ire, icy).

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