Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/2/2005 5:54:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, lazarus > <lazarus33pjf at cox.net> writes: > >> Also, "pen" and "pin" should have distinctly different >> pronunciations. I wondered where these don't have distinctly different pronunciations. > As should "paraffin" and "kerosine". But I *really* wonder where these don't! (Around here it's spelled "kerosene". > --KG