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minus-squareits_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·18 hours agoIt absolutely doesn’t have a hard E vowel sound. Except when my deep south relatives say it.
minus-squareDrunkenDuckling@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoBecause it’s not a “hard” E… it’s a mid-central vowel in “foreign” (schwa): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel (like when going “uh”) Proof in an American dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign While “ei” in “Neighbor” is NOT a schwa, it’s an “ay”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neighbor
It absolutely doesn’t have a hard E vowel sound. Except when my deep south relatives say it.
Because it’s not a “hard” E… it’s a mid-central vowel in “foreign” (schwa): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel (like when going “uh”)
Proof in an American dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign
While “ei” in “Neighbor” is NOT a schwa, it’s an “ay”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neighbor