Re: USAGE: Permissable /IN/ (was: [i:]=[ij]?)

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Kristian Jensen wrote:
>> <jaw dropping in disbelief> Really?!! I really must hear you say these two
>> words for myself. Where was it you're from?
>
>Well ... I'm from Pensacola, Florida (far northwest), but that's not
>where my pronunciation's from.  My pronunciation's rather unusual.
>Apparently based on a pronunciation picked up from a speech therapist,
>but there must be other influences that I can't figure out (since my
>mother tells me that her accent was slight), maybe an subconscious
>desire to sound different.  :-)  I've heard many guesses as to location,
>the most recent I heard was "sounds kind of like South African", which
>was a new one.  I've usually heard "England/Britain" or "Germany",
>occasionally "Australia", or "Austria" or "Eastern Europe".
Wow! Interesting! So no one seems to think you're from N.America even
though you are. Your accent must sound bizarre for a native speaker of
English.

>BTW, I'm one of those people who *hates* to hear a recording of their
>own voice.
Me too.

>If you wish, I could send you a wave file of me saying "sing", "seen",
>and also "sin" for comparison.
I'd really really like that if you don't mind. In the interest
of science...

-kristian- 8)