17 дек. 2023 г. · I say far and fire the same but pin is like...peyin and pen is more pehhn. I also lived brief times in the NE and the plains in early childhood.

26 сент. 2014 г. · "Pin" is pronounced like "tin", "bin", "shin", "kin", etc. "Pen" is like "men", "den", "ten", etc.

2 мар. 2019 г. · There's a sound change that's common in some parts of the US that makes "pin" and "pen" sound the same. I just found a reference that says ...

24 окт. 2015 г. · In New York "pen" is pronounced like the pen as in pencil. Pin is pronounced like the "pi" in pip with an "n" at the end.

28 мар. 2024 г. · Pronunciation geography of Pin-Pen ; 13. Pronounced the same - Eastside ; 15. Pronounced the same - Westide ; 6. Pronounced the same - Southside.

29 дек. 2014 г. · Most Southern US English speakers make no phonic distinction between 'pen' and 'pin' and this is one of the most widely recognized features of Southern speech ...

7 июл. 2022 г. · What is the thing where Brad says "pen" and "pin" interchangeably? Something like a regional dialect? A speech impediment? Cactus?

12 мая 2020 г. · My friend is the same way. She is from Florida but pronounces it pen.

15 мая 2023 г. · The "pin-pen merger" is a name for this general phenomenon where some American accents merge historical /ɪ/ and /ɛ/ to /ɪ/ before nasal ...

19 сент. 2023 г. · I can't understand why the pin-pen merger happened. It happens before nasals but I don't understand how nasalization can change the vowel quality.