I have heard of this rule but every one of your examples has the short I sound but life has a long I, it doesn’t sound better the way your examples do, does the rule ever apply elsewhere to the long I?
That’s a good point. There are (at least) two vowel sounds written with a letter “i”. A short sound like in “fin” and a diphthong like in “fine”. All the examples are the short sound, not the diphthong. So the rule described above probably only applies to the short sound.
I have heard of this rule but every one of your examples has the short I sound but life has a long I, it doesn’t sound better the way your examples do, does the rule ever apply elsewhere to the long I?
That’s a good point. There are (at least) two vowel sounds written with a letter “i”. A short sound like in “fin” and a diphthong like in “fine”. All the examples are the short sound, not the diphthong. So the rule described above probably only applies to the short sound.