Chinglish

[Herb Stahlke]

I just listened to the M-W.com pronunciations of "sin," "sing," and
"scene."  In that speaker's pronunciation "sing" very clearly has the
vowel of "sin," not of "scene."

Herb

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The truespel database is not my dialect but m-w.com and other talking dicti=
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> I'd like to heare a sound file showing how chin and ching vowels sound alik=
> e.  I believe I'm the only one in this forum who has ever offered a sound f=
> ile about anything.  Sound files should be omnipresent in the forum.Tom Zur=
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> =3B prefers his own dialect.> dh> > No=2C it&#39=3Bs &#34=3Bching&#34=3B as=
>  in &#34=3Bching-lish.&#34=3B &#34=3BCheenglish&#34=3B is not a possible> p=
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> &#62=3B> &#62=3B So you think it&#39=3Bs &#34=3Bchin&#34=3B as in &#34=3Bch=
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