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> sky: she > ski: shee > skill: sheeel For a moment there I hoped you were just going to keep adding e's to as you went down the list.
by admax88q 10y ago
> sky: she
> ski: shee
> skill: sheeel
For a moment there I hoped you were just going to keep adding e's to as you went down the list.
- kagamine 10y agoIt's quite hard for me to get across the slightly differing sounds as it'snot my native tongue. That is why I used "approximation" in my comment, but yes it does seem like an ever lengthening ee sound. The rule is that if the vowel is followed by a double consonant it's a short vowel, single consonant means long vowel, so bil = beel and bill = beeel. But as a non-native it can be very hard to distinguish during a conversation and I am often misunderstood. In fact, I'm not even sure I have the rule the right way around :(