Re: [Re: [IE conlangs]]

Tom Wier wrote:

> Which is why Nik originally said that they're homophones in Southern
> American English, because /E/ just doesn't exist before nasals, except
> as an allophonic variant of /&/.  (Pronouncing a full /&/ before nasals
> sounds positively foreign to me! :) )
So you make "sand" like my "send", and both "send" and "sinned"
like my "sinned", apparently.  (Of course, I may indeed be a
foreigner to a Texian.)

But I think most, if not quite all, Americans make "been" like "bin",
not like "bean".

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)