Re: umlaut reduction?

I wrote:
>Saw a poem where "Leute" and "beide" rhymed ...
Hm, that should've been "heute" and "beide", but it amounts to the same
thing. I should perhaps add that they're evidently pronounced something like
[hait@] and [bait@] in this dialect, while Standard High German have [hoyt@]
and [baid@].

                                              Andreas
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