From a post to Macworld

[Herb Stahlke]

Because you have the lax front vowel merger while "feet/feat" are homonyms?

Herb

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "Ever _sense_ Apple went after Android in the patent wars…"
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> This is one of my own favorite errors. The writer must also be "one of
> them good folks that come from home," as the line goes.
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> It's a bit mysterious why this is a problem. Why this, but not _feat_
> for _feet_ or something else?
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