From a post to Macworld

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jul 25 03:24:57 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Because you have the lax front vowel merger while "feet/feat" are homonyms?

A good thought. These are two distinct phenomena.

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