On May 6, 12:36=EF=BF=BDpm, darkon <darkon....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Boron Elgar <boron_el...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:33:20 -0400, "Roy Smith"
> > <rdsmit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>"Boron Elgar" <boron_el...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >>news:i321245o1fcgd1tshm5oqdsl2jfsgcmdsb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> On 06 May 2008 13:53:07 GMT, Opus the Penguin
> >>> <opusthepenguin+use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>>>For all sad words on tongue or pen,
> >>>>the saddest are these: "It might have been."
>
> >>> It didn't rhyme then, and it doesn't now - at least for those
> >>> of us in the NE US.
>
> >>It does rhyme in SE US and in Texas. =EF=BF=BDWhat, do NE USers
> >>pronounce been to sound like bean? =EF=BF=BDWell, that's just wrong...
> >> =EF=BF=BD ...Roy
>
> > Pen, not pin
>
> I think I was an adult before I realized there are places where
> "pen" and "pin" aren't homophones. =EF=BF=BD
Bill, bell, and bail are all pronounced the same by some older people
I know who grew up in rural areas. They all sound like bye-ail.
|
