Short I Long I Words. Gauge student understanding of long and short This guided lesson teaches kids all about the Short I sound, and provides lots of examples of short I words. Quite a few common words spelled with 'O' are pronounced with a short 'U' sound: of, love.
So, "i" seems to be a short version of the "ee (i " sound. Words that Start with a Long "I" Sound (including words that start with ay, ey and i) Go to Long I Activities. aye-aye The aye-aye is an unusual, nocturnal primate (a type of mammal) that lives in Madagascar (an island off the coast of Africa). My name demonstrates difference between long and short vowels!
The so-called "short" vowel (or short sound of the vowel) is a monophthong and the so-called "long" vowel (or long sound of the vowel) is a diphthong (considering /iː/ as [ij] and /uː/ as [uw]).
A short vowel word is any word that doesn't allow the vowel within it to generate that vowel's long vowel sound.
The long e sound does take more time than the short i sound. An American English teacher shows the difference between the short i and the long i sounds in English. Words that are the same except one sound are called minimal pairs.