SoutheLily wrote:
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123 wrote:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?listen01.wav=listen
Could you tell me what you hear from the link above? l//ɪ/sten or l"e"sten?
Dear 123:
It is l//ɪ/sten . short 'i'. just like the 'i's in 'it', 'sit', etc
It is follwing the shot vowel rule.
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