[Ads-l] Do we mostly say "ken" for "can"

Tom Zurinskas truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Sat Jun 27 13:46:42 UTC 2020


My texting speech recognition to write text from my voice constantly replaces the spoken word "Ken" with "can."  So it must be that we say "ken" for "can" in US dialect.  I "ken" understand that.  But when I say "can" it does write "can".  When I say "HI Ken."  it writes "Hi can".



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