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Despyzer

Despyzer

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I'm hoping to accumulate a list of word-pairs where the only distinction between them is the "short i" and "long e" sounds. For instance, live/leave or grin/green. Whatayagot?

List so far:

  • alit/elite
  • bicker/beaker
  • bid/bead
  • bin/bean
  • bit/beat
  • #####/beech
  • chick/cheek
  • chip/cheap
  • chit/cheat
  • did/deed
  • dill/deal
  • dip/deep
  • fickle/fecal
  • fill/feel
  • fist/feast
  • fit/feet
  • gin/jean
  • grid/greed
  • grin/green
  • grit/greet
  • hid/heed
  • hill/heal
  • hip/heap
  • hit/heat
  • kill/keel
  • kin/keen
  • kip/keep (kipper/keeper)
  • lick/leak
  • lip/leap
  • list/least
  • litter/litre
  • live/leave
  • mill/meal
  • mitt/meat
  • nil/kneel
  • nit/neat
  • pick/peek
  • pill/peel
  • pit/peat
  • pitch/peach
  • rich/reach
  • rid/read
  • riff/reef
  • rim/reem
  • rip/reap
  • ship/sheep
  • ####/sheet
  • shill/she'll
  • sick/seek
  • sill/seal
  • sin/seen
  • sip/seep
  • sis/cease
  • sit/seat
  • skim/scheme
  • slick/sleek
  • slip/sleep
  • still/steal
  • till/teal
  • tin/teen
  • ###/teat
  • whip/weep
  • wick/week (wicker/weaker)
  • will/wheel
  • wit/wheat
  • winner/wiener (win/wean)
  • wit/wheat
 
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AAABatteries said:
Why are we doing this/these?
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But seriously, my joke answer wasn't completely off-base. I work with a lot of people who are speakers of Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, etc.) on accent reduction, and they have a difficult time with this vowel distinction.

 
Bicker/beaker 

Wick/week/weak

Wicker/weaker

Chit/cheat

#####/beach

Rid/reed/read

Litter/liter

 
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Despyzer said:
I'm hoping to accumulate a list of word-pairs where the only distinction between them is the "short i" and "long e" sounds. For instance, live/leave or grin/green. Whatayagot?
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Is this for speech therapy purposes or something like that?

 
Ranethe said:
"Sir" is not a short /i/ sound, it's considered vocalic /r/. I don't think "sear" is long /e/ either, it's another vocalic /r/ sound I think
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I agree with you on "sir," but "sear" rhymes with "ear" - definite long e sound.

 
Despyzer said:
I agree with you on "sir," but "sear" rhymes with "ear" - definite long e sound.
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The long /e/ is colored by the following /r/, which is why it's not a true long /e/ sound. 

Compare, for example, the words "eat" and "ear".  The vowel sounds are not the same. 

Edited to clarify. It kind of is long /e/ but the /r/ changes it over the duration of the vowel sound. For simplicity though I think it can be classified as long /e/

 
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Hid/Heed

you already have Bit/Beat, but you could add Beet to that as well.  How many triple groups can you come up with?  

 
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