> -----Original Message----- > From: lazarus [mailto:lazarus33pjf at cox.net] > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:35:51 -0700, you 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. > > > > As Jose said, in the south they tend to blur a lot of these > pronunciations. > > They both are pronounced "pin" in the areas of the south I've lived. > I think that's because we southerners (I'm assuming you're referring the US South) tend to be lazy about our pronunciation anyway, particularly the vowels.