Re: silly question
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:23:40PM -0500, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote:
> What are you talking about??
> how do you pronounce bed, Fred, fed, federal, Ned, debit, credit, ... I
> could go on.
>
> I can think of fecal...., oh and legal, I like to pronounce special
> speecial, but that is just me.
> I can think of far more examples where e is pronounced with a short
> sound than examples where an "e" says "ee" on it's own.
Well, there's just about every case where you're removing something
from something else - de-flate, de-burr, de-toxify, etc. But I don't
have any idea what a "bian" is, so how you would de-bian something is
a complete mystery.
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