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From: jdd@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: Re: regional homonyms? - (nf)
Message-ID: <1853@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 19:32:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 19:32:26 1983
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Well, I was born and raised in South Carolina.  When I was growing up, I
thought that "pen" and "pin" were pronounced identically (as indeed they
were).  Not only that, but I couldn't \hear/ the difference!  I remember a
grade-school teacher illustrating the difference, but it was lost on me.

I left there a long time ago and have replaced my Southern accent with some
Yankee mishmosh, but I still can hardly hear the difference between the two.
If I exaggerate the pronunciation, I can make "pen" sound different from
"pin", but I usually forget.

(I had bad troubles with "idea" too!)

Cheers,
John ("Long Way From Home") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill