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

From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
>> Thin / then
>
>I've learned /TIn/ and /DEn/. I cannot even imagine a dialect that confuses /I/
>and /E/.
Nevertheless, it happens around here.
The canonical example is how "pin" and "pen" fall together.

I've noticed people with this don't talk about "pens", they talk about "ink
pens".  [This may of course be an entirely unrelated effect...]

    *Muke!