OMG!

[conuly]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9292420-understanding-english-language-variation-in-u-s-schools

If I win this, I'm handing it in turn to every teacher in the nieces' school.

Asking to find "the short vowel" in dog. Running right up into that pin/pen merger, three years running. Something's gotta give, sooner or later.

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(It's the same vowel difference between "in" and "end", but I suppose there's areas where there isn't much difference there either.)

That would be same areas, no? The i/e difference gets neutralised before any following n for such speakers, as far as I know.

[conuly]

Or m.