~Feenlend

[Tom Zurinskas]

Thanks Ben,

I went to Seattle for 10 straight sunny 80 degree days back in Sept 88?.  We climbed up to the snow at Rainier, and drove around the Pujit Sound to the Pacific to dip my toe in for the first time.  Plan to take my wife back this summer.

Anyway I think the main pronunciations of ing-ink and ang-ank are as discussed in my qlippit link below both for USA and UK.  Same way in old movies too.  Seeengin in the rain.

http://www.qlipmedia.com/wqb/index.php?discid=b9da9b86

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.



> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:47:34 -0800
> From: blukoff at ALVORD.COM
> Subject: Re: ~Feenlend
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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."
>
> 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
>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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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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