Re: USAGE: English vowel transcription [Re: Droppin' D's Revisited]

dirk elzinga wrote, quoting Irina Rempt and respectively myself:

> > > bit  [bit]
> > > beat [bI:t]
> >
> > Have I been misunderstanding it all that time?
>
> Perhaps Adrian confused <i> with <I> ...
Picking things up through cumulative examples on this list had convinced
me that [i] was 'ih' while [I] was 'ee'.

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