Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by shazar on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:02PM
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Aren't week/weak and piece/peace pronounced exactly the same?
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Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by ericbarrett on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:39AM
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I'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
Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by irrational on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:05PM
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They are for me. Exactly the same pronunciation and emphasis. Maybe there are some dialects of English where they are not pronounced the same.
They're really quite close, both pairs of them. But the emphasis isn't quite the same as most people speak it.
Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by NovemberWhiskey on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:53PM
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As 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.
dictionary.com shows both with the same IPA: \wik\ and \pis\.
I think they're identical.
Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by danielheath on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:33PM
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I’m sure, in many accents, that they are. Definitely not the same in Australian Strine.
As an American, I knew about Straya but this is the first I've heard of Strine. Or should I say Murican :)
Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by no_carrier on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:27PM
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They're identical in Australian English.
Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by danielheath on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:05AM
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Which one?
Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by leephillips on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:36PM
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They 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.
Yeah what I meant is that it just increases the possibilities of awkwardness. Piss of cake, piss process, etc.
Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by chrisweekly on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:24PM
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Yes, they're homophones.