Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> I've learned /TIn/ and /DEn/. I cannot even imagine a dialect that confuses /I/
> and /E/.
In Southern American and AAVE, /E/ is pronounced [I] before nasals, but this is
a surface effect than a real phoneme shift.

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