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merfee (547 words)
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You are the one who's making do
I am the one who's privy to
'cause you saw him in the park
'cause you saw him at the bridges with the people in the dark.
(Mayfly, by Belle and Sebastian)
And another example of my mispronouncing words based on their spelling. At least I know now, better late than never!
I think that it always has the short i, but I can see why you'd expect it to rhyme with ivy. Yet another reason why teaching English is harder than it really needs to be.
I've never heard this pronounced with a long i at all.
I have always heard both pronounced the same way, with a short i, rhyming with chivvy.
Is it pronounced the same? I always thought "privy" in the way you describe rhymed with chivvy and "privy" as in outhouse rhymed with ivy.
In the sense of "participating in the knowledge of something private or secret."
An one hopes a privy would be private.