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spurious

/ˈs p y o͝o r ē ə s, ˈs p ər ē ə s/

spur-ï-ous, spu-rï-ous

sound_3_i

I makes /ē/ (its third sound, as in "radio").

SCHWA_RULE

Any vowel in an unstressed syllable may reduce to schwa (/ə/).

Y_SAYS_LONG_E

Y makes /ē/ only at the end of multi-syllable words. I makes /ē/ before vowels or in loanwords.

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