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I'm listening to music, and the singer rhymed "ends" with "again". (Well, more or less. Let's pretend that -ds isn't there, why don't we.)
Now, I don't find that rhyme very surprising, because I have the pin-pen merger. (As a reminder, that means I don't make the vowel in "pet" before a nasal (n or m or ng), I automatically make the vowel in "pit" instead. I very clearly remember sitting in speech therapy at age eight or so wondering why it was "not possible" to put the sounds together that way!) So end always sounds like ind would to people who do NOT have the pin-pen merger. (And pin and pen sound alike, hence the name of the merger.)
But it occurs to me that maybe nobody else finds it surprising either. Maybe people without the merger say again with the same vowel as end or pen all the time (look, I can't type IPA without googling, so bear with me here) and I just didn't realize that before.
Soooooo... what vowel do you use in the second syllable of the word again? Help me out, I'm just dying of curiosity!
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Now, I don't find that rhyme very surprising, because I have the pin-pen merger. (As a reminder, that means I don't make the vowel in "pet" before a nasal (n or m or ng), I automatically make the vowel in "pit" instead. I very clearly remember sitting in speech therapy at age eight or so wondering why it was "not possible" to put the sounds together that way!) So end always sounds like ind would to people who do NOT have the pin-pen merger. (And pin and pen sound alike, hence the name of the merger.)
But it occurs to me that maybe nobody else finds it surprising either. Maybe people without the merger say again with the same vowel as end or pen all the time (look, I can't type IPA without googling, so bear with me here) and I just didn't realize that before.
Soooooo... what vowel do you use in the second syllable of the word again? Help me out, I'm just dying of curiosity!
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Americans are cutting calories, but far from eating healthy
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Thousands of California convicts to regain voting rights
For strawberries, it’s diversify or die
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