Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by 3pt14159 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:07PM
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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.
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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.