Lesson 7: The [ / i / ]sound as in "pit"

Short Vowel [ /i / ]

Speech organs Position

The front of the tongue comes high in the front of the mouth, not quite as high as the long [/i:/] sound (Lesson 4) and just a fraction back.


Words


Look at the mouth diagram to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound

Highlighted bold letters pronounced as [ / i / ]

i - him , hilarious, hideous, hint, whim, vision, spirit

a - village, cabbage

e - delete, defeat, delusion

y - crypt, synonym, symbol, symptoms, hymn



sentences

Read each sentences aloud slowly at first, then as if you were telling it to someone in a natural way.

1. Those lettuces taste like cabbages.

2. Bill lifted the lid of the bin tentatively and found not a single thing.

3. Tell Jill I think this is a silly little game.

4. I can't stay a minute longer in this miserable little pit!

5. Tim Grim is a solid, respectable man and is a pillar of society.

6. This simple thing, a wedding ring, is a symbol, the oldest in history.

7. Climbing over a rocky mountain, skip the rivulet the fountain.

Verses

Here's a first-rate opportunity

To get married with impunity,

To indulge in the felicity

Of unbounded domesticity.

You shall quickly be personified,

Conjugally matrimonified,

By a doctor of divinity,

Who resides in this vicinity