Howard Brazee wrote: >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. > > I know a Tennessean who cannot pronounce these words without their sounding exactly the same. As both a non-native speaker of English and a musician, I can usually grab on to slight pronunciation nuances to distinguish words, but not in this case; it sounds as if she's using the same word for both. It's very amusing. >>As should "paraffin" and "kerosine". >> >> > >But I *really* wonder where these don't! (Around here it's spelled >"kerosene". > > Yeah, didn't get that either... Jose -- Jose Marquez | There are 10 types of people in jhereg69 at earthlink.net | the world: those who understand http://www.hackwater.com | binary, and those who don't.