I've heard something close to [greI)n] a fair few
times.
--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> My son is just now playing golf on the
> Xbox and if I'm not a totally bad ear,
> or the sound quality abysmal, one of the
> 'commentators' pronounces _green_ as
> [gr@jn] or maybe [gri\jn] or something
> inbetween. Has any native speaker heard
> this IRL? I'm sure the Great Vowel Shift
> has never ended: English heavy syllable
> nuclei keep crawling up the edges of the
> vowel space and falling down the middle! :-)
>
>
> /BP 8^)>
> --
> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte
> se
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
> à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil
> ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
> c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)
>