>
>Not necessarily. Many varieties of Western American English
>(including the one I speak, and presumably the one Tom speaks)
>has front vowel tensing before the velar nasal. This means that
>the vowels in 'peek' and 'pink' are distinguished only by
>nasality: 'pink' has a nasal vowel and 'peek' does not.
Yippee! I'm not insane!
> Likewise 'bake' and 'bank'.
Now we part company. I say [bejk] but [b{~k]
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