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#142569 05/02/05 01:02 PM
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aha! so they keep those guys aloft via a pit of frothing vipers?! (hi anna)
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> É, é = *e'vil, r*ee'l

Huh. That's poor phonological analysis I reckon. Doesn't matter where you are from, there is a difference in say reed and reel - the tongue has to make a palatal closure quite far back against the roof of the mouth to go from the eee sound to the el sound. So there is almost bound to be a production which, if slowed down, might sound a bit more like reee~uhl, making it sound different to the plain eee in evil.

But these are the problems inherent in trying to define pronunciation in its own terms!



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