Phonetic alphabets

Barbara Need nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Thu Dec 2 19:41:09 UTC 2004


I just got off the phone with someone offering me a free subscription
to an IT trade magazine, and she had to spell something for me. What
I HEARD her say was, "e as in I". Of course, what she meant was "e as
in eye". In what variety/varieties of English are these not
homophones?

Barbara
UChicago--Linguistics



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