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They're really quite close, both pairs of them. But the emphasis isn't quite the same as most people speak it.
by 3pt14159 5y ago
They'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.