No country for old rope

The last three of the "el" sounds:

First draft of "el" > "Magic E" notes

1. facelift
   This escapes the general exclusion of "face" and "lift" compounds, because although a facelift does involve tightening of facial elements, the face as a whole is not simply lifted.
2. firelight
   This is the one representative of the many compounds formed with "fire".
3. firelit
   The Macmillan English Dictionary does not include this word. Not many dictionaries do (Onelook finds only four). This link is to the Collins English Dictionary.
4. livelong
   This is a magic E in that the e does not affect the  E of the i (in the same way as it does not affect the i in the /ɪ/ pronunciation of live).
5. omelette
   This does not have a magic E in the traditional sense (where an English word ending in e has an ending [often a suffix], so that the resultant el has no sound represented by the e). But as no other English word of this kind has a silent e – apart from words with a magic E (borrowed suffix and all, with no such word as "*ome") – omelette is included here to avoid creating a separate one-word category.

First draft of "el" > /i:l/  notes

1. delectation
   The Macmillan English Dictionary gives this transcription, but the audio sample has the /e/ phoneme.
2. prelapsarian
   The Macmillan English Dictionary does not include this word, which escapes the general exclusion of words that use the "pre-" prefix because of the opacity of its derivation - Onelook finds only two dictionaries that include "lapsarian" – Wiktionary and Wikipedia. But many other dictionaries do
include "prelapsarian". The link is to Collins English Dictionary.

3. preliterate
   This is the sole representative of words formed with the prefix "pre-", with an exception covered in the previous note.
4. relaxation
   The Macmillan English Dictionary gives this transcription, but the audio sample has the /ɪ/ phoneme.

First draft of "el" > /eɪl/  notes

1. elan
   The Macmillan English Dictionary gives this transcription, but the audio sample has the /e/ phoneme. There are other possible and acceptable versions, as is common with foreign borrowings.
2. melange
   The Macmillan English Dictionary gives this transcription, but the audio sample has the /e/ phoneme (presumably the speaker knows some French, and did not follow the transcription – preferring the purer French vowel).