Despyzer
Lousy Attention Whore
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:
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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