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(M. Rangaswami, Trichy)

The ‘a’ in the first syllable is like the ‘a’ in ‘cat’, ‘bat’, and ‘sat’, while the ‘i’ in the second is like the ‘i’ in ‘sit’ and ‘bit’. The final syllable is pronounced like the word ‘by’. The word is pronounced ‘a-li-by’ with the stress on the first syllable. ‘Alibi’ is a word mostly used in legal contexts. In many movies, when the villain is accused of murdering someone, his sleazy lawyer tries to prove that his client couldn’t have possibly committed the crime as he was elsewhere when the murder was committed. This evidence that people provide is called an alibi.

*The husband has a cast iron alibi. He was not in the country when the crime took place.

S. UPENDRAN

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