Learn English – Are there any words pronounced with an unstressed short monophthong at the end of word that are not /ə/

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Following my question Are there any words in English pronounced with /e/ at the end? I was wondering if there are any words pronounced with an unstressed short monophthong at the end of word that are not /ə/? The only words I could think of were "aqua", "alpha", etc., however, when I looked them up in the Macquarie Dictionary (excellent Australian dictionary, although admittedly phonemic rather than phonetic) it has them listed as /ˈækwə/, /ˈælfə/, etc. Wiktionary also has them as /ˈækwə/ (UK) and /ˈæɫfə/. Other words: bee /b/, taxi /ˈtæk.s/, do /d/, go /ɡ/, emu /ˈiːmj/. In Australian English these are all either diphthongs or long monophthongs (Wiktionary lists some of these as short monophthongs for US accents).

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Best Answer

How about "eerie"? Wiktionary has this listed as /ˈɪəri/. This would make "Siri" a word as well, though it is a name.