Nonverbis
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Please, have a look at the screenshot.
![Screenshot from 2021-07-01 15-28-15.jpg Screenshot from 2021-07-01 15-28-15.jpg](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3269-9ad9fb11ddc15c5cf10f854b9c929de0.jpg)
If is from English Pronunciation in Use by Jonathan Marks.
So, there happen to be an "i" sound at the end of words in unstressed sillables.
This is Oxford Learner's Dictionary:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/about/practical-english-usage/phonetic-alphabet
Well, "i" sound is not listed.
But it is used. For example in "happy":
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/happy?q=happy
Could you tell me why it is ignored in the list of the sounds?
By the way, I can't distinguish this sound from [FONT="]ɪ. And I can't reproduce [/FONT][FONT="]ɪ and i so that there should be clear difference.
So, for me the sound i looks like a whim of phonetics theoreticians.
Could you comment on it?[/FONT]
![Screenshot from 2021-07-01 15-28-15.jpg Screenshot from 2021-07-01 15-28-15.jpg](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3269-9ad9fb11ddc15c5cf10f854b9c929de0.jpg)
If is from English Pronunciation in Use by Jonathan Marks.
So, there happen to be an "i" sound at the end of words in unstressed sillables.
This is Oxford Learner's Dictionary:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/about/practical-english-usage/phonetic-alphabet
Well, "i" sound is not listed.
But it is used. For example in "happy":
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/happy?q=happy
Could you tell me why it is ignored in the list of the sounds?
By the way, I can't distinguish this sound from [FONT="]ɪ. And I can't reproduce [/FONT][FONT="]ɪ and i so that there should be clear difference.
So, for me the sound i looks like a whim of phonetics theoreticians.
Could you comment on it?[/FONT]