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English is crazy.
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The words ‘I’ and ‘eye’ are pronounced the same and they’re the AI [aɪ] diphthong.
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But we also have ‘aisle’,
where it’s spelled A-I.
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‘Height’, spelled E-I, same sound, AI.
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‘Tie’, now it’s I-E.
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‘Dye’, Y-E. ‘Sight’, I-G-H.
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‘Time’, I-consonant-E. ‘My’, just the Y.
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And ‘buy’, U-Y.
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So many ways to spell the same sound.
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