Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 9, 2001, 1:28 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I've learned /TIn/ and /DEn/. I cannot even imagine a dialect that confuses /I/
> and /E/.
Southern US English has /E/ -> /I/ before nasals. Thus, "pen" and "pin"
are homophones.
Another minimal pair: mouth, mouthe (mouthe = "to shape one's lips into
the shape of words without actually making any sound")
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