[Ads-l] Do we mostly say "ken" for "can"

[Laichar]

I live in Hong Kong and have an accent skewed to some artificial generic 
British pronunciation, so I generally don't have that problem. However 
every time when relatives visit from the US (NY to be exact) my 
pronunciation of "can" gets skewed towards "ken" to some kind of sound 
similar to /kae:n/.

Laichar

On 27/06/20 9:46 pm, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> My texting speech recognition to write text from my voice constantly replaces the spoken word "Ken" with "can."  So it must be that we say "ken" for "can" in US dialect.  I "ken" understand that.  But when I say "can" it does write "can".  When I say "HI Ken."  it writes "Hi can".
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