Re: pens (was Phoneme winnowing continues)

Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>
> BTW, for me, the writing emplement "pen" is [pEn] - rhymes with "pet", but
> the enclosure for animals "pen" is [pIn], rhymes with "pit".
I tend to misanalyze enclosure as being the same word as sharp pointy
thing, i.e., "pin", while writing instrument is "pen".  Altho they are
perfectly homophonous in my dialect, I still think of those as two
words, but with that erroneous assignment of "enclosure".

Incidentally, I also don't rhyme "Remember" and "December".  (Re)member
is one of the very small number of words in my dialect with pre-nasal
/E/.  Those words are /ri'mEmbr/ and /di'sImbr/.  I first noticed that
when I saw the phrase "A December to remember" and realized that it was
probably meant as a rhyme, but didn't rhyme for me.

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