Short I

Short I is a vowel sound. It appeared on Between the Lions for three seasons.

Word Families

• ib
• ick
• ickle
• id
• iff
• ig
• iggle
• in
• ing
• ink
• ip
• ipper
• ish
• it
• itten
• ix

Appearances

Note: * = the episode is not directly focused on short i, however a segment featuring it is shown.

Seasons 1-3

• Episode 03: Little Big Mouse
• Episode 08: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
• Episode 11: To the Ship! To the Ship!
• Episode 14: Lionel's Great Escape Trick
• Episode 17: Something Fishy
• Episode 21: Sausage Nose
• Episode 25: A King and His Hawk
• Episode 34: Icarus's Wings
• Episode 36: Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!
• Episode 43: Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks
• Episode 57: Pigs Aplenty

Pre-Season 5 episodes not focused on short I but contains a segment featuring it

• Episode 15: There's a Fly in My Soup*
• Episode 23: The Lucky Duck*
• Episode 26: The Roar That Makes Them Run*
• Episode 47: The Spider and the Lie*
• Episode 53: Good Night, Knight*
• Episode 55: Stop That Chicken!*
• Episode 59: Too Cool*
• Episode 66: Art Party*
• Episode 70: Dance in Smarty Pants!*

Post-Season 3

• Episode 75: The Golden Meaty Awards*
• Episode 84: I'll Fix Anthony / Jamaica Louise James*
• Episode 85: Pete's a Pizza/Pygmalion*
• Episode 87: King Midas/The Dirty Smelly King*
• Episode 89: The Coyote and the Rabbit/The Gingerbread Man*
• Episode 91: The Problem with Chickens/An Egg is Quiet*
• Episode 92: Spicy Hot Colors/Yesterday I Had the Blues*
• Episode 95: Dear Mr. Blueberry/I Wanna Iguana*
• Episode 105: Stone Soup / Bee-Bim Bop!*
• Episode 109: Trosclair and the Alligator/The Coyote and the Rabbit*
• Episode 114: River Story/Salmon in Alaska*
• Episode 122: A Birthday for Cow/Rabbit's Gift
• Episode 129: Deep in the Swamp/Trosclair and the Alligator*

Segments About Short I

Short I

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: hit

Sky: it, lit, lip, rip, trip

Tiger Words: A Trip to Tripoli [trip, not trap] (Version 1)

Sky: trip, rip, zip (Version 1)

Sky: trip, rip, zip (Version 2)

The Un-People vs. The Re-People: zipped (Version 1)

Stage: zip, tip, tick, tickle (Version 1)

Stage: zip, tip, tick, tickle (Version 2)

Gawain's Word: tickle (Version 1)

What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Tickled and Pickled Ribs (Version 1)

Ms. Denyce Graves: sit

Stage: it, sit, sick, ick, tick, tickle (Version 1)

Stage: it, sit, sick, ick, tick, tickle (Version 2)

Fred Says: tickle

Fred Says: tickle

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: intelligent (Version 1)

Rectangular Bugs: in, fin, fine, line

Silent E: pin/pine (Version 1)

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: wig

Fred Says: jiggle

Replaced Letter Songs: A Fellow Named Sig (Version 1)

Gawain's Word: jig

Robots: jig, wig, big

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear and the Big Wig

Stage: big, bag, bat, bit, it

Johnny Consonanti and The Vowelles: it (Version 1)

Dunderhead Lab with Dr. Nitwhite and Watson: Words with the Short I and the Long I

Color Patterns: it, sit, six

Tongue Twisters: This is the Sixth Sister

Ms. Denyce Graves: is

Silent E Word Maze: pin, pine

Silent E: pin/pine (Version 2)

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: intelligent (Version 2)

Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Terrible Pickle with a Zipper on It [pickle, not pockle] (Version 1)

At the Library with Dr. Nitwhite: Words with "ip"

Fred Says: rip

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: lip

Gawain's Word: slip (Version 1)

Dr. Bertice Berry (with Announcer Bunny): ship (Version 1)

Dr. Bertice Berry (with Announcer Bunny): ship (Version 2)

Sky: ship, lip, rip, trip (Version 1)

Sky: ship, lip, rip, trip (Version 2)

Tiger Words: A Trip to Tripoli [trip, not trap] (Version 2)

Rectangular Bugs: trip, rip, ship

The Un-People vs. The Re-People: zipped (Version 2)

Replaced Letter Songs: A Fellow Named Sig (Version 2)

Johnny Consonanti and The Vowelles: it (Version 2)

Color Patterns: it, hit, hip, ship, sh

Tongue Twisters: Seven Selfish Shellfish

What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Squished Fish on a Dish (Version 1)

Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Real Jam [not real jim] (Version 1)

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: kick

Fred Says: trick

Stage: trick, tick, chick (Version 1)

Stage: trick, tick, chick (Version 2)

Information Hen sings about Feathered Friends

Tiger Words: A Trick or A Truck [trick or truck] (Version 1)

What's Your Name?: Short I (Version 1)

On Broadway with Faith Prince and Walter Bobbie: hit

Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Terrible Pickle with a Zipper on It [pickle, not pockle] (Version 2)

Gawain's Word: tickle (Version 2)

Seesaw: trick, tick, ick, wick, wish, dish, ish, fish

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: fish

Replaced Letter Songs: Young Tish Had a Big Empty Dish (Version 1)

Stage: dish, dig, jig, wig, wick, ick

Dr. Bertice Berry (with Heath): ick

The Great Smartini: Chicken in a Wig Doing a Jig (Version 1)

The Great Smartini: Chicken in a Wig Doing a Jig (Version 2)

Sometimes Y (Version 1)

Sky: fly, flying

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Fish and the Eagle (part 1)

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: dish (Version 1)

What's Your Name?: Short I (Version 2)

Fred Says: fish (Version 1)

What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Squished Fish on a Dish (Version 2)

Sea: fish, fix, six, fix, fish

Sometimes Y (Version 2)

Reporter Lionel with Stephon Marbury: spin

Robots: in, win, wig, jig

The Great Smartini: Chicken in a Wig Doing a Jig (Version 3)

The Great Smartini: Chicken in a Wig Doing a Jig (Version 4)

Tiger Words: A Trick or A Truck [trick or truck] (Version 2)

Seesaw: trick, tick, wick, wish, shhh

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Fish and the Eagle (part 2)

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: dish (Version 2)

Fred Says: fish (Version 2)

Replaced Letter Songs: Young Tish Had a Big Empty Dish (Version 2)

Color Patterns: fish, fib, rib, rub, tub, stub, stuff

Color Patterns: stuff, stiff, stick, slick, slip

Gawain's Word: slip (Version 2)

Stage: slip, tip, tin, in

Ms. Denyce Graves: in

Sky: in, win, wish (Version 1)

Sky: in, win, wish (Version 2)

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Wish Upon a Star

Color Patterns: wish, sh

Tiger Words: A Trick or A Truck [trick or truck] (Version 3)

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: sing

Color Patterns: sing, sit, it (Version 1)

Color Patterns: sing, sit, it (Version 2)

Walter Bobbie: it (Version 1)

Heath the Thesaurus sings Ten Small Words

Tiger Words: A Trip to Tripoli [trip, not trap] (Version 3)

Fred Says: ing

Fred Says: sing

Space: sing, sight, night (Version 1)

Space: sing, sight, night (Version 2)

The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: There is No Need to Light a Night-Light

Sky with Spotlights: night, nick, ick, tick, tickle

What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Tickled and Pickled Ribs (Version 2)

Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Real Jam [not real jim] (Version 2)

Sometimes Y (Version 3)

Stage: back, lack, lick, lit, light

Rectangular Bugs: light, lip, lap

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: ring

Gawain's Word: sing

Without an Ing

Construction: ing, thing, ing, zing, zip

Fred Says: zip

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Skipping Hippo (Version 1)

The Great Smartini: Kitten Mittens (Version 1)

The Great Smartini: Kitten Mittens (Version 2)

Space: kitten, kit, it, sit, sing

Teatro Hugo & Ines: Hugo, Ines and the Singer

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: brick (Version 1)

Transformation: brick, trick, tick, stick (Version 1)

Transformation: brick, trick, tick, stick (Version 2)

Fred Says: lip

Fred Says: lipstick

Gawain's Word: kick

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and Trixie the Tricky Pixie (Version 1)

Moby Duck: Moby the hippy dippy white chicken (Version 1)

Moby Duck: Moby the hippy dippy white chicken (Version 2)

Word Machine: chick, ick, pick, ping

If You Can Read: ing (Version 1)

Mr. Bruno Kirby: nothing (Version 1)

Mr. Bruno Kirby: nothing (Version 2)

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and Trixie the Tricky Pixie (Version 2)

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: pig (Version 1)

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: pig (Version 2, with adding the letter s in the word "pigs")

Stage: pig, pick, ick, tick, tickle (Version 1)

Stage: pig, pick, ick, tick, tickle (Version 2)

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: sick, slick

Swami Marmy: Your Sister Will Drop In For A Visit

The Adventures of Justin Time: Justin Time and the 600-Pound Chicken

The Adventures of Justin Time: Justin Time and the 600-Pound Chicken and the Pogo Stick

Gawain's Word: spin (Version 1)

Color Patterns: pin, in, thin, thing, ing (Version 1)

Color Patterns: pin, in, thin, thing, ing (Version 2)

If You Can Read: ing (Version 2)

Sky: sing, sit, it, bit

Fred Says: bit

Walter Bobbie: it (Version 2)

Albrecht Roser and Grandma

The Lone Rearranger Rewrites Again: Cowboys Must Ride Horses Into The Corral (Version 1)

Word Machine: ride, hide, hid, hip, rip

Vowel Boot Camp: Camp Itty-Bitty-Kitty-Time - rip, ripe

Mr. Al Roker: chilly

Get Your Mouth Moving with Fred and the Freds (Version 1)

The Lone Rearranger Rewrites Again: Cowboys Must Ride Horses Into The Corral (Version 2)

Heath the Thesaurus and the monkeys sings Ten Little Words (Version 1, with Announcer Bunny)

Get Your Mouth Moving with Fred and the Freds (Version 2)

Heath the Thesaurus and the monkeys sings Ten Little Words (Version 2)

Martha Reader and The Vowelles: brick (Version 2)

If You Can Read: ick (Version 1)

Teatro Hugo & Ines: Ines and the Baby

Rectangular Bugs: kick, kit, sit, sip, skip

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Skipping Hippo (Version 2)

Get Your Mouth Moving: Short I (Version 1)

Little Wendy Tales: Dripping Ice Cream (Version 1)

Little Wendy Tales: Dripping Ice Cream (Version 2)

Fred Says: Rapping Word Family with ig [pig, wig, big, dig, jig]

Marmy's Poetry Corner: Pig

Chalkboard: pig, ping, wing

Vowel Preview: The Wings of Icarus

Construction: wing, win, pin

Gawain's Word: spin (Version 2)

India Arie: Give Is a Outlaw Word (Version 1)

Little Wendy Tales: Dripping Ice Cream (Version 3)

India Arie: Give Is a Outlaw Word (Version 2)

Gawain's Word: kitty

Fred Says: fix six

If You Can Read: ick (Version 2)

Paint: chicks, chips, chimps

Billboard: whip, whisk, whistle

Paint: sink, six, sip

Poems: Fish

Short Story Time with Arty Smartypants: The Big Fish

Blending Bowl: vanish

Blending Bowl: slippery

Video Game Console: fist, fish, dish

Replaced Letter Songs: Young Tish Had a Big Empty Dish (Version 3)

Real Kids: Kids Say Words That Begin with the Letter I (Version 1)

Real Kids: Kids Say Words That Begin with the Letter I (Version 2)

Get Your Mouth Moving: Short I (Version 2)

Blending Bowl: gift

CGI Letters: I

Y as a Short I

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger Meets the Sleeping Gypsy

Arty Smartypants: Blast, Fantastic, Bombastic, Gymnastic

The Two Sounds of the Letter G

The Two Sounds Made by C

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Gymnast