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Ci is a digraph used in Italian to write the sound /tʃ/ before the non-front vowel letters a, o, u.
In English, it usually results in the sound /ʃ/ whenever it precedes the vowels a, e, o, or u because the sound /s/ that one ordinarily associates with the soft "c" ordinarily combines with /j/ to form /ʃ/, unlike the normal practice in French, Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese in which the letters "ci" before a vowel represent the two distinct sounds /s/ and /j/ in succession.
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