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barred i

barred i noun: synonym of i with stroke (“Ɨ/ɨ”).

Noun

barred i (plural barred i's)

  1. Synonym of i with stroke (“Ɨ/ɨ”)
    • i with stroke/barred i
      Additional Latin Letter used in Micmac, Mixtex, and Sahaptin. [U+0268, U+0197]2009, Theodore Rosendorf, Ellen Lupton, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 75
    Synonyms:
    i with stroke
  2. A close central unrounded vowel sound, represented as /ɨ/ in IPA.
    • As I told you at our last consultation, I am fairly certain that your students' consistent difficulty with the schwa, the schwar, the barred i, the intrusive r, the inversion of velar plosives and some fricatives and affricatives, and their confusion with alveolar plosives—all and more of which...1972 October 6, LaVerne Hanner, A Study of the Effectiveness of Linguistically Oriented Teaching Methods in Correcting Dialectally Derived Errors in the Writing of Black College Students. Final...
    • Both the barred i (/i/) and the schwa /ə/ occur frequently but inconsistently throughout American English in weak-stressed positions in running speech as distinct from single words pronounced in isolation.1970, Carl A. Lefevre, Linguistics, English, and the language arts, page 96

Synonyms of barred i

  • i with stroke

Forms of barred i

pluralbarred i's

Questions about barred i

What does barred i mean?
Barred i means synonym of i with stroke (“Ɨ/ɨ”).
What part of speech is barred i?
Barred i is a noun.
What is the plural of barred i?
The plural of barred i is barred i's.

Words near barred i in the dictionary

  1. barred antshrike
  2. barred antshrikes
  3. barred buttonquail
  4. barred d
  5. barred down
  6. barred i
  7. barred knifejaw
  8. barred off
  9. barred out
  10. barred owl
  11. barred owls

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