Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff

Barry Garcia wrote:
> He gave two  examples of the dialect, pen and pin (I can't describe the
> sounds accurately , but suffice to say, both words are said kind of in
> between the sounds of both words) both sound the same,
That's exactly like Southern American English before nasals, "pin" and
"pen" are both /pIn/.  In this Fresno dialect, does this happen for
*all* /I/ and /E/?  Are "pet" and "pit" homophones for him?

On a Canadian show called "Kids in the Hall", there was a skit where a
person was trying to find his pen, which he realized he had lent to
someone, who didn't return it.  Anyways, throughout the skit he's saying
things like "that's my pen!" using /E/, so everytime he said it, it
sounded very odd to me!  :-)

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