SS/PS question

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > For 'i' there is also the sound as in 'machine'.

Carol:
> Are you saying that, for you, the "i" in "machine" has the same sound
> as the "i" in "pit" or "chin" or "shin"? For me, it doesn't. The "i"
> in "machine" sounds like a long "e" (muh SHEEN, not muh SHIN).

Geoff:
No, I didn't suggest that.

In your post 37399, you gave two examples for 'i'. For long 'i',
you suggested the pronoun 'I' and for the short 'i' as in 'it'.

Neither of these covers the 'i' sound of 'machine' which is precisely
the reason for my comment above.