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Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia by OJFord on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:29PM (#14655524)
Are you making 'seh' rhyme with 'meh', or mostly with 'say', but saying it's subtly different? (If only there were some sort of phonetic alphabet eh...)

I would say it's most like the long 'a' in 'fate' or 'mate'.

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Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia by omaranto on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:36PM (#14655593)
I did mean rhyming with "meh", not a long "a" at all! In IPA, I'd say it's ɛ, like the vowel in the English word "bed".

So it really sounds like "a" to you? Huh.

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Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia by OJFord on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:56PM (#14658307)
Oh, interesting.

It does, yes, but as I alluded to that differs from 'ay' in which I'd linger slightly more on the end 'y' note if you see what I mean.

Less extreme than the way Americans linger on a syllable-ending 'r', but the same sort of thing.

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