~Feenlend

[Paul Johnston]

Or most places in  the Northern US, where the same is true.
Feenlend?  Not in a million years, from an L1 speaker, anyhow.

Paul Johnston




On Feb 18, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Benjamin Lukoff wrote:

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> Interesting. I trust you've never been to Seattle, where almost
> everybody
> pronounces "sing" with the same vowel as in "sin."
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> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>>> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>>>> One thing ~thheeng we were talking about is the sound of letter
>>>> "i" in
>>>> words like "sing, wing, thing".
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>>>> 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
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>>> Are you trying to say that "sing" is pronounced, in English, as
>>> if it were
>>> spelled "seeng"?
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