~Feenlend

[Benjamin Lukoff]

I *will* say that I've heard some people around here pronounce the
*second* vowel in "singing" as "ee," though.
 Could that possibly be what Tom is talking about?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Paul Johnston wrote:

> 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
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> 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.
> >>
> >> 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".
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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