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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 07:16:30AM +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
>  --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> wrote: 
> > > > Can you give me an example of a word with [I] in it?
> > > 
> > > Well, I suppose assuming short i is [I], then 'little'.
> > 
> > OK, so what's a word with long i in it, then, in your dialect?
> 
> Long i? Like in the word 'eye'? (a diphthong)
> 
> Or long e? Like in the word 'bee'? (a diphthong)

That one.

You pronounce "beet" and "beat" substantially different from "bee"?

-Robin

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