~Feenlend

[Benjamin Lukoff]

Interesting. I trust you've never been to Seattle, where almost everybody
pronounces "sing" with the same vowel as in "sin."

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

> Yes indeed.  "Sing,ping,wing" is pronounced ~seeng,~peeng,~weeng.  Not
> the same vowel as in sin,pin,win ~sin,~pin,~win.  This is for UK as
> well.  I hope folks realize this even though dictionaries don't.
>
> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.
>
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> > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:37:57 -0800
> > From: blukoff at ALVORD.COM
> > Subject: Re: ~Feenlend
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> >
> >> One thing ~thheeng we were talking about is the sound of letter "i" in
> >> words like "sing, wing, thing".
> >>
> >> I don't know why, but linguists ~leengwists express this sound as short
> >> i when its really spoken as long e ~ee in English. My theory is that
> >
> > Are you trying to say that "sing" is pronounced, in English, as if it were
> > spelled "seeng"?
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