Looking for specific pairings of words (1 Viewer)

[Despyzer]

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
  

 

[El Floppo]

Don/dawn

 

[Buckychudd]

I didn’t know you were a wheelhouse alias???

 

[Osaurus]

Rudolph/Rudoph

 

[Despyzer]

I didn’t know you were a wheelhouse alias???

Don't be stupid. Everyone knows this is a Furley alias.

 

[Juxtatarot]

Tin/teen

Bin/bean

 

[Despyzer]

pie/pee

Closest so far, but that's long i/long e.

 

[Juxtatarot]

Winner/wiener 

 

[Despyzer]

Tin/teen

Bin/bean

There we go!

 

[AAABatteries]

Sin/seen

 

[AAABatteries]

Kip/keep?

 

[AAABatteries]

Why are we doing this/these?

 

[Despyzer]

Lip/leap

 

[Despyzer]

Why are we doing this/these?

I'm selling this list to the Soviets.

 

[Despyzer]

Why are we doing this/these?

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.

 

[touche']

pie/pee

Is it pie?

 

[Ranethe]

Bit/beat

Sit/seat

wit/wheat

sip/seep

mitt/meat

kill/keel

fill/feel

sill/seal

hit/heat

hill/heel

hip/heap

lip/leap

Yeah I'm kind of bored now 

 

[kutta]

Sick, seek

 

[kutta]

Lick, leak

 

[kutta]

Nit, neat

 

[kutta]

Fit, feat, feet

 

[kutta]

This is too easy

 

[kutta]

Slip, sleep

 

[kutta]

Ship, sheep

 

[kutta]

Slick, sleak 

 

[Ben & Jerry's]

Winner/wiener 

Chicken/diener

 

[Van Dyman]

####, sheet

 

[GregR]

rip/reap

din/Dean

gyp/Jeep

vip/Veep

gin/Gene

Lynn/lean

win/wean

crick/creek

 

[GregR]

###/teat

min/mean

mid/mead

Mick/meek

mill/meal

 

[GregR]

pit/Pete

pick/peek

pill/peel

 

[brun]

Will/wheel

 

[gianmarco]

Chicken/diener

This is so perfect.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

What a stupid language.

 

[brun]

Bicker/beaker 

Wick/week/weak

Wicker/weaker

Chit/cheat

#####/beach

Rid/reed/read

Litter/liter

 

[DaVinci]

pinness/penis

syntax/seen tacks

business/beeswax

 

[GregR]

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?

Is this for speech therapy purposes or something like that?

 

[Long Ball Larry]

****/deke

 

[Long Ball Larry]

crick/creek

#controversial

 

[mr. furley]

surprised you're workshopping this outside of @snogger's weekly call

 

[Ray Barboni]

Sky/Ski 

?

 

[snogger]

surprised you're workshopping this outside of @snogger's weekly call

All the work on the Test Forum lately during the weekly calls didn't allow this item to be brought up..

@Despyzer for taking the lead on this one.

 

[Jayrod]

mini/meanie

sir/sear

blip/bleep

rich/reach

 

[Ranethe]

mini/meanie

sir/sear

blip/bleep

rich/reach

"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

 

[Jayrod]

"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

Your mom is vocalic.

 

[DaVinci]

"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

Your mom is vocalic.

vocalic/vocal leek

 

[Despyzer]

"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

I agree with you on "sir," but "sear" rhymes with "ear" - definite long e sound.

 

[Galileo]

Why?

 

[Ranethe]

I agree with you on "sir," but "sear" rhymes with "ear" - definite long e sound.

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/

 

[Galileo]

Shin/Sheen

Lid/Lead

Dip/Deep

 

[Galileo]

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?