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15 Nov 2009, 7:31 pm
CockneyRebel
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16 Nov 2009, 4:27 pm
886 wrote:
I never even had knowledge the 2 even sounded remotely similar... perhaps in another country with one's accent, not in america though.
There are actually parts of the US that pronounce "pin" and "pen" the same. Not typically in the Western US, though. There's an accent test you can take online that tells you what kind of accent you have. Unfortunately I forgot the link.
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16 Nov 2009, 5:31 pm
I pronounce them differently. I pronounce the in in "pin" as "in." (If that makes sense. 
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16 Nov 2009, 6:13 pm
Stinkypuppy wrote:
886 wrote:
I never even had knowledge the 2 even sounded remotely similar... perhaps in another country with one's accent, not in america though.
There are actually parts of the US that pronounce "pin" and "pen" the same. Not typically in the Western US, though. There's an accent test you can take online that tells you what kind of accent you have. Unfortunately I forgot the link.
I say them differently. I kind of have a mashup accent. My friend from Seattle says them the same. My name is Emily and she pronounces it "Immily". However, I don't know whether this is a standard Seattle accent or just her.
16 Nov 2009, 6:21 pm
Stinkypuppy wrote:
886 wrote:
I never even had knowledge the 2 even sounded remotely similar... perhaps in another country with one's accent, not in america though.
There are actually parts of the US that pronounce "pin" and "pen" the same. Not typically in the Western US, though. There's an accent test you can take online that tells you what kind of accent you have. Unfortunately I forgot the link.
I've run into people who pronounce them the same, and handed them the wrong object a lot as a result.
16 Nov 2009, 6:26 pm
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17 Nov 2009, 10:35 am
pineapple wrote:
I say them differently. I kind of have a mashup accent. My friend from Seattle says them the same. My name is Emily and she pronounces it "Immily". However, I don't know whether this is a standard Seattle accent or just her.
I too am from San Francisco and pronounce them differently
When I did the accent test, it scored me with a Western accent, and then showed a geographical map... and it included WA state, so I don't know. Was your friend born and raised in Seattle, or did she move there from somewhere else? I travel to Seattle every year and haven't yet noticed them saying those words the same, but I could also not be aware.
17 Nov 2009, 2:20 pm
Stinkypuppy wrote:
pineapple wrote:
I say them differently. I kind of have a mashup accent. My friend from Seattle says them the same. My name is Emily and she pronounces it "Immily". However, I don't know whether this is a standard Seattle accent or just her.
I too am from San Francisco and pronounce them differently
When I did the accent test, it scored me with a Western accent, and then showed a geographical map... and it included WA state, so I don't know. Was your friend born and raised in Seattle, or did she move there from somewhere else? I travel to Seattle every year and haven't yet noticed them saying those words the same, but I could also not be aware.
She was born there, FWIW.
Edit: Here's one accent test: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm
It claims I'm from the midwest, which is odd because I've never even been to the midwest. However, it also says that perhaps I moved a lot as a child, which would be true.
18 Nov 2009, 8:31 am
pineapple wrote:
Stinkypuppy wrote:
886 wrote:
I never even had knowledge the 2 even sounded remotely similar... perhaps in another country with one's accent, not in america though.
There are actually parts of the US that pronounce "pin" and "pen" the same. Not typically in the Western US, though. There's an accent test you can take online that tells you what kind of accent you have. Unfortunately I forgot the link.
I say them differently. I kind of have a mashup accent. My friend from Seattle says them the same. My name is Emily and she pronounces it "Immily". However, I don't know whether this is a standard Seattle accent or just her.
It's just her. o_O
I've lived in seattle all my life and anyone with an accent isn't from around here..
18 Nov 2009, 10:26 am
I pronounce them like they're supposed to be pronounced. If someone asked for a "pen", and called it a "pin", I'd correct them because it's not right. 
Stuff like that, bugs me. 
18 Nov 2009, 12:43 pm
886 wrote:
It's just her. o_O
I've lived in seattle all my life and anyone with an accent isn't from around here..
I've lived in seattle all my life and anyone with an accent isn't from around here..
ok that's what I was thinking, heh...
