![]() ![]() ![]() In the original Latin it is pronounced as /ai/ (in IPA) or to rhyme with the word 'eye'. It comes (almost always) from a borrowing from Latin. The pair 'ae' or the single mushed together symbol 'æ', is not pronounced as two separate vowels. Sometimes it uses a regular literal one-to-one pronunciation, at oher times the spelling got stuck centuries ago but sounds changes occurred in speech, and sometimes, the word is written as from the foreign language it was borrowed from but the impossible or unlikely pronunciation is adapted to English mouths and ears. English orthography is rule based.except it's not very good at following the rules. ![]()
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