I seem to recall that English has 24 vowel sounds (fact check that before promulgating), 5 vowels with pinch-hitter y, and variously uses things in What Were You Thinking ways. Denise, you know that English can always consider any language is 'looking at us funny'.
As a Midwesterner, many vowels have turned into schwas. That's the inverted e, and it's a vowel by committee. As a child I learned that among the geeky one should say 'sewing pin' and 'ink pen', and that pen should be disambigiouized when animal husbandry and clerical functions overlapped. Random introduction and subtraction of 'r' is another English is stacked animals in a trench coatism.
Tima, beetch is a thing in English, for the campy usage of bitch where it is neither intended as derogatory to woman nor related to canine reproduction. Homophones, that's the spelling I concern myself with, as a dictionary can resolve other problems, but...
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As a Midwesterner, many vowels have turned into schwas. That's the inverted e, and it's a vowel by committee. As a child I learned that among the geeky one should say 'sewing pin' and 'ink pen', and that pen should be disambigiouized when animal husbandry and clerical functions overlapped. Random introduction and subtraction of 'r' is another English is stacked animals in a trench coatism.
Tima, beetch is a thing in English, for the campy usage of bitch where it is neither intended as derogatory to woman nor related to canine reproduction. Homophones, that's the spelling I concern myself with, as a dictionary can resolve other problems, but...