Re: Improved (Short) Ygyde
| From: | David Starner <dvdeug@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 23:08 |
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:28:39AM +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> However,
> there's definitely a long/short contrast between reed [ri:d] and rid [rid],
> which I think is a more important contrast in English.
Not in my dialect. Looking at "A Pronouncing Dictionary of American
English", I'm believe it's reed [rid] (homophone with read) and rid
[rId]; there's definately no length contrast in my speech.
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