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Likely because the German ie is not at all pronounced like in pie, but some English ei like in reimbursed aren't that far off. Roughly as close as the German E
by usrusr 4y ago
Likely because the German ie is not at all pronounced like in pie, but some English ei like in reimbursed aren't that far off.
Roughly as close as the German Ei (noun) comes to the English ie in piej off, but not that far off. So it's kind of symmetric. Makes me wonder if there are any English words where we Germans are prone to do that flip?
- codethief 4y agoBut "ie" in English sometimes also is pronounced like "piece"? :) Ah, the woes of English pronunciation… https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem.html https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem....
- usrusr 4y agoTrue, English pronunciation and trying to explain something, that rarely ends well