English in USA

[Tom Zurinskas]

Right.  Call a friend that is not a linguist, a normal person.  Say "which
two words have the same sounding vowel.  Then say sin, seen, sing. If you
say these words as m-w.com says them (the voice not the notation), they
should say "sin" is different if I'm right.  Do it with band,bank,bang and
ask if any vowel is different. If I'm right band is different.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.





>From: Alice Faber <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
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>Subject: Re: English in USA
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:05:54 -0500
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>Laurence Horn wrote:
> > At 6:32 PM -0500 11/14/06, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >> At 11/14/2006 02:29 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:
> >>> It's not W CT either--or, I'd be very surprised if it was.
> >>
> >> It's not "Eenglish" in NYC, at least not when I was growing up
> >> there.  So I too would be surprised if it's W CT, that being NY
> >> Yankee country. :-)
> >>
> > It's not "Eenglish" in South Central CT either, or on www.m-w.com,
> > where the speaker quite clearly renders [INlIS], rhyming with, well,
> > Singlish.  Of course, I tested this on a computer in South Central
> > CT; maybe it's different on computers in W CT...
> >
>
>Well, my parents still have dialup, so I doubt I'll be able to try it
>out when I'm at their house for Thanksgiving. Oh, well.
>
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