Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:

> It's true that /i/ tends to be thought of as 'short' while /I/
> tends to be thought of as 'long'. This is because occurences of /I/ in
> many dialects of English _are_ almost always longer than occurences of
> /i/.
>
> bit  [bit]
> beat [bI:t]
Have I been misunderstanding it all that time?

I thought that it was [bIt] "bit" and [bi:t] "beat". To me, [bit]
sounds like the Dutch _biet_ "beetroot", and [bI:t] almost as if it's
spelt "bate".

   Irina

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