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Queer ‘ī’ from a Straitened Guy

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 3:57 pm
by brogine
Several dictionaries I’ve looked at indicate the same long ‘i’ in
high
high school
my
might
not to mention cetera.

What gives? Do you pronounce them the same way?

Re: Queer ‘ī’ from a Straitened Guy

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:41 pm
by Slava
Is cetera somewhere pronounced with a long i? Is that the question? All the others are long to me.

Re: Queer ‘ī’ from a Straitened Guy

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:04 am
by brogine
They really sound the same to you? The latter in each pair has a distinctly ‘broader’ sound to me. Amen corner . . . ?