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/ə ˈth ä r ĭ t ē z/

au-thor-ĭ-ty's

Rule 1

Any vowel may say one of the schwa sounds (/ə/) in an unstressed syllable.

Rule 2

I and Y may say /ī/ or /ĭ/ at the end of a syllable.

Rule 3

Y says /ē/ only at the end of a multisyllable base word. I says /ē/ at the end of a syllable followed by a vowel and at the end of foreign words.

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