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No, the funny thing is that half the country thinks they pronounce the two differently, when the sound is identical...
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Well, I, at the very least, actually pronounce "lint" with an /I/, that lax vowel in "lit," and "lent" with /e/, the slightly more open and tenser vowel in "let."
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Where I come from, it's pronounced the same. Otherwise the dobie wouldn't be as funny as it isn't.
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*scratches head* Interesting. Whenever I try to insert a....soft...consonant (such as an /n/) after an /e/, the sound of the vowel changes. I don't know if it's psychological or physiological, but /I/ and /e/ become indistinguishable.
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I'm partly saying, Pixie, that when I hear it, it sounds the same too....I suspect that if David were here, speaking the words, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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Not when I read Robert Jordan. (Which has led to some hilarious laughter every time I think about the character Min...)
I have to consciously exaggerate the difference to extreme levels to make a distinction, and then it sounds like absurd precision. Also, it veers close to "mean"--I assume the proper phonetic designation is /E/, for that?
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