The pronunciation of in newly coined words using these suffixes is not always clear. The digraph may be used to retain the hard pronunciation in inflections and derivatives of a word such as trafficking from the verb traffic.

There are several cases in English in which hard and soft alternate with the addition of suffixes as in critic/criticism and electric/electricity (electrician has a soft pronunciation of because of ''yod''-coalescence).

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