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I often trip up in guessing the pronunciation of words that have been borrowed
into Japanese from English where the original pronunciation had "ti" in it.

For example, I might say ネイチブ instead of ネイティブ.

I realised this is because the way those words are rendered in Japanese isn't
consistent. Sometimes it's ティ, but sometimes it's チ.

So far I can think of the words below, but I'd be grateful if you could
suggest more. **EDIT: To be clear, I would just like people to list a few they
can come up with off the top of their heads, for the purpose of new
discoveries. No need for an exhaustive list.**

## ティ

ネイティブ (native)  
ティー (tea)  
パッティー (patty)  
ティーシャツ (T-shirt)

## チ

チップ (tip)  
モチベーション (motivation)  
チーム (team)  
チケット (ticket)  
チベット (Tibet)
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Trying to think of borrowed English words that parse "ti" as ティ or as チ。
Well this question is very broad, but I'll just list some I can think off the
top of my head. I will be adding more as I come across them online.

Do you want to include medical/scientific terms? There's a lot of them.

ティ

```

    ティーンズ　　　 teens
    ティアラ 　　　　tiara
    ティシュ 　　　　tissue
    ティーピーオー 　TPO
    ティルト         tilt
    フェスティバル   festival
    
```

チ

```

    チクタク       tictac
    チタン         Titan/Titanium
    チタニウム     Titanium
    チッカー       ticker
    チルダ         tilde
    
```
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