MiG - Whats in a name?

[SaQSoN]

Originally Posted by Romanator21

Maybe it depends on dialect, but I've always known "и" as in "fleet", not as in "big" (long i sound).
Saqson, you're Russian, help us decide!

I am not a philologist, though. As far, as it seems to me, that depends on the particular word and dialect. Basically, in Russian and other Slavic languages there is no special rule about vowels pronunciation (like this one short, that one long, etc.).