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Re:C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing com... by wizofaus on Thursday August 04, 2022 @03:21PM (#32347155)
I'm curious, are there accents in which those two words are homophones? Given the US tendency to pronounce new/due/tune as noo/doo/toon I can imagine some might say mute as moot but I can't find anything authoritative online.
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Re:C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing com... by jcranmer on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:41PM (#32348053)
According to Wikipedia, East Anglia does universal yod-dropping, so mute/moot would be homophonic. (See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_dialect-depe...).

Personally, I haven't come across anyone who pronounces 'mute' without the /j/.

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Re:C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing com... by danuker on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:05PM (#32347635)
They are not perfect homophones. There is a slight i (IPA j) in "mute".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mute

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot

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