IsocatMar 6
Spoken aloud: "Some highschool kids get high".
The "high" vowel is the same in both
87.5%
They're different
12.5%
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Show threadHernanLGMar 6
@isocat
They're different because of co-articulation (their context of pronunciation) but that is trivial. In isolation, both words have the same vowel
Show threadIsocat
@HernanLG Which "both"?
Mar 6 at 10:44pmWeb
Show threadHernanLGMar 7
@isocat
High in highschool and high in isolation
Show threadIsocatMar 7

@HernanLG Ah. Then no, they are not the same in my speech, and it's not just a matter of context (co-articulation). The first vowel in "hyper" is not the same for me as the first vowel in "rider". "Sider" has the same ah-ee diphthong as "rider", but my first vowel in "cider" is the one in "hyper" and "mitre" and "midas", not the one in "rider" and "sider" and "fiber" – so "sider" and "cider" aren't homophonous for me.

I didn't spend a lot of years studying linguistics, but well more than enough to know a pronunciation difference like this is not the sort of thing that gets waved away as trivial – it's more likely to spark wars!
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