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Originally Posted by JohnMichael
Whoa there, I did ask him if he was a native English speaker. Sorry I have never heard anyone say "I have bean to the store".
Don't get around much, eh?
Most often say "I've 'bean' to the wherever" -- and I am a native English speaker. Yes, I have said 'bin' there but usually I fully articulate the verb.
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Originally Posted by Feanor
Don't get around much, eh?
Most often say "I've 'bean' to the wherever" -- and I am a native English speaker. Yes, I have said 'bin' there but usually I fully articulate the verb.
Judging by pronunciation guides in dictionaries including the Oxford I must say I have "bin" to the store.
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Originally Posted by JohnMichael
Judging by pronunciation guides in dictionaries including the Oxford I must say I have "bin" to the store.
I suppose it is best to stick to the local vernacular. Yes, I've heard lots of people say 'bin' for the past tense of 'be' -- I'm not accusing you or them of mispronunciation.
I usually say tuh-mey-toh, (tomato). But born many years ago, (as I was), an anglophone Montrealer, I still occasionally say tuh-mah-toh.
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Originally Posted by kushy
meet ............meat
That is correct so there will be no need to mete out punishment.
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waste-waist, principle-principal, where-wear
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Originally Posted by kushy
floor..........flour
No but flour and flower works.
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lite ...............light
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whole...hole
fone...phone
old...ode
but...butt
for...four...fore
pale...pail
spear...spare
heal...heel
be...bee
dam...damn
pair...pear
fluor...floor
pi...pie
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I have to disagree with several. A word spelled fone? Old and ode do not sound the same to me. Spear and spare? Fluor is a root word.
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Originally Posted by Mingus
whole...hole
fone...phone
old...ode
but...butt
for...four...fore
pale...pail
spear...spare
heal...heel
be...bee
dam...damn
pair...pear
fluor...floor
pi...pie
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I was on another site where a member was asking "witch cartridge should I buy" and I wanted to correct to which cartridge.
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Originally Posted by JohnMichael
Old and ode do not sound the same to me.
*sniff* day do when I hab a code. *hack!*
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What about:
pour...poor
knead...need
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Originally Posted by Mingus
What about:
pour...poor
knead...need
Say, there's another one: poor & pore. Pore, of course, has two meanings, one a verb as in "poring over a document", the other a noun as in the skin feature.
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Best of luck to all the new immigrants and visitors to this country trying to learn English. All the examples we have shown makes it tough to learn.
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Sorry, can't buy into "poor" and "pour" being pronounced the same.
"Poor" rhymes with boor or moor.
"Pour" rhymes with boar (or bore, whichever you prefer) or roar
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Originally Posted by markw
Sorry, can't buy into "poor" and "pour" being pronounced the same.
"Poor" rhymes with boor or moor.
"Pour" rhymes with boar (or bore, whichever you prefer) or roar
Sorry but I do not hear a difference. He is so poor he does not have a pot to piss in or a window to pour it out.
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Originally Posted by JohnMichael
Sorry but I do not hear a difference. He is so poor he does not have a pot to piss in or a window to pour it out.
Guess it's a regional thing.
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Originally Posted by markw
Guess it's a regional thing.
Checked the Oxford to be sure. Both had the same pronunciation. Pôr
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It seems to several acceptable pronunciations. Both seem to be accepted.
See pour and poor definitions/pronunciations.
Heck, a goodly portion of the local population around here pronunce "axe" and "ask" the same.
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