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Aren't week/weak and piece/peace pronounced exactly the same?
by shazar 5y ago
Aren't week/weak and piece/peace pronounced exactly the same?
- 3pt14159 5y agoThey're really quite close, both pairs of them. But the emphasis isn't quite the same as most people speak it.
- ff7c11 5y agoI think they're identical.
- danielheath 5y agoI’m sure, in many accents, that they are. Definitely not the same in Australian Strine.
- hunter2_ 5y agoAs an American, I knew about Straya but this is the first I've heard of Strine. Or should I say Murican :)
- no_carrier 5y agoThey're identical in Australian English.
- danielheath 5y agoWhich one?
- leephillips 5y agoThey are identical. I think he was making a distinction between {week, weak} on one hand and {wick} on the other (but I was also initially confused by the way he put it). This is a big hurdle for native Spanish speakers as well, because i in Spanish is always pronounced as "ee". There seem to be a lot of embarrassing word pairs around these vowels; sheet, beach, etc.
- dvirsky 5y agoYeah what I meant is that it just increases the possibilities of awkwardness. Piss of cake, piss process, etc.
- shazar 5y agodictionary.com shows both with the same IPA: \wik\ and \pis\.
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoAs a speaker of fairly standard British English, I would say they are homophones; I tried but couldn't find any natural way in which I could pronounce them differently.
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- irrational 5y agoThey are for me. Exactly the same pronunciation and emphasis. Maybe there are some dialects of English where they are not pronounced the same.
- chrisweekly 5y agoYes, they're homophones.
- ericbarrett 5y agoI'd pronounce those the same (western US accent), but it can vary. Check out the caught/cot merger, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger