Do "pin" and "pen" sound the same?

[madinmaryland]

I say yes.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. No.

[ContraBass Black]

2. This should be a poll.

[LanternWaste]

3. "Pen" and "Get" are not words in Texas...

"Pen" and "Get" are not words in Texas. They are both actually "Pin" and "Git".
So it is written and so sayeth Prof. Billy-Bob Redneck :)

(I had the "NEVER say "git"-- you're not a hillbilly, it's "get!" drummed into me over and over and over and over during my drama days in HS)

[BrotherBuzz]

4. Do you mean a sticking pin or a writing pin?

The two objects, pin and pen, do not sound alike in my native California dialect. I have friends from Texas/Oklahoma/Arkansas that do pronounce the words the same.

[madinmaryland]

5. I pronounce them the same, but in the east and mid-atlantic

they sound different. I'm from Ohio.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Do aunt and ant?

Not where I'm from. Neither do pin and pen.

[madinmaryland]

7. Yes they do from where I grew up.

Again, in teh east and mid-atlantic they do not not.

[TommyO]

8. North of you, in NJ

it was "Ant" Mary, though my brother did marry into an "Aunt" family.

[madinmaryland]

9. Hmmm. Connecticut and the northeast was definately

"aughnt". Maryland is kind of a mixture.

[BrotherBuzz]

17. Ant is what I grew up hearing, and I had four aunt Mary's

I always thought the people that said aughnt were putting on airs, you know, like the stereotypical New England boarding school preppy until I met my wife from Boston who says aughnt. To my chagrin, my son, a sixth generation Californian, says aughnt!

[XemaSab]

16. Ant and aunt sound the same here in California

Pin and pen don't.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Yes, they sound the same

both sound like the bug.

Southeast MI.

:hi:

[trof]

10. In Alabama they do.

;-)

[TZ]

11. Nice post, Zippy Pinhead....

Maybe thats a northeast Ohio thing? I don't remember that in Cinci anybody pronouncing them similarly... :shrug:

[madinmaryland]

14. Pffth!! I was from Northwest Ohio!

Remember that I hated teh Reds!

[zippy890]

37. thank you turtl en sue

You must be french with that name:-)



oh to be in France and know the speaking habits of northeastern Ohio. If only.

I'm thinking about penning a letter to my Auhnt Joan in Boston. My mumu needs hemming, and hawing and she has those little staight pins with tiny balls at the teps.

:hi:

au revoir, mon ami

[JVS]

12. if you have a fucked up accent

[bigwillq]

13. No.

At least I don't think they do.

[ZombieHorde]

15. No, they are both pronounced the way they are spelled.

As are the words ant and aunt.

[yellowdogintexas]

18. in the Southeast pin and pen sound exactly the same. So do Aunt and ant

so do get and git
oil and earl

and so forth.

I think the prononciation of pen as pin led to the inevitable phrase ink pin to distinguish writing instruments from sharp pointy objects

edited to add: BUT in the Southeast we know how to pronounce potato. In Massachusetts, it is pronounced "badada" and soft drinks are called tonic and if you want what the rest of the nation calls a milkshake, you have to order a frappe.

[madinmaryland]

26. Not sure about that.

Northwest Ohio, we are the same with pin/pen and aunt/ant.

But get/git and oil/earl are different.

I lived in Connecticut for 20 years and never heard "badada" though i did here "bodega" and soft drinks in the northeast were "sodas" and in NW ohio they were "pop"

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

30. only Massachusetts, not anywhere else, I never heard badada in Conn. nt

[Lex]

20. "bin" and "Ben"?

nt

[madinmaryland]

24. The same.

[sakabatou]

21. Nope

Pin and pehn

[femmocrat]

22. No.

Remember phonics? Short "e" and short "i" do not sound the same.

I hate hearing "been" pronounced like "ben" -- and "can" pronounced like "ken". :banghead:

[Karenina]

23. Only if you talk funny.

:evilgrin:

[madinmaryland]

25. Nice post, Anna.

:grr:

:hi:

[Skittles]

27. only when one is misprounounced

common in the south

[Lex]

28. Misprounciations abound all over the US

but yeah, I think that's a southern one.

[madinmaryland]

29. Pffth! Do you need your ass kicked!!

They are pronounced the same!

[Skittles]

34. not properly; not even close

back when I was an airman stationed in Texas, my boss asked me to get him a "pin". For the life of me I could NOT understand why he needed a pin. "A PIN?" I kept asking and he got very exasperated saying YES!! A PIN! A PIN!! It took me forever to realize he was saying PEN. He was MISPRONOUNCING IT!! Properly pronounced, PIN and PEN do NOT sound alike - not at ALL! :D

[WinkyDink]

31. NO!

[spindrifter]

32. Until I went to kindergarten, I spoke Texan as a first language.

I didn't discriminate between pin and pen. You figured out which was which from the context. No problem. Then I started getting teased because other kids said the two words had different sounds. Now I have expanded to include both the different and the same pronunciations, depending on who I am with.

[pitohui]

33. to me they sound exactly the same EOM

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[jobycom]

35. No. How about Dawn and Don?

[krispos42]

36. No

:spank:


:-)



I wasn't even aware that some people made that pronunciation.


Oy vey... another thing to fret over now...

[moriah]

38. I've learned, carefully, how to say "pen".

Then again, I lived for a year in NY.

When I slip, I say both as "pin".

I'm a Southern girl.

[madinmaryland]

40. My wife is from NY and she gives me endless grief about that.

Of course I haven't changed!!

[raccoon]

39. They do in my neck of the woods. I say yes. nt