SS/PS question

[Carol]

"Carol" <justcarol67@> 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.
>
Carol:
Ah! I thought you meant that, for you, "machine" had a *short* "i,"
which would make it muh SHIHN in the system of annotation I'm using.
I'm saying that, for *me,* it counds more like muh SHEEN.

I agree that the last syllable of "machine" is neither a short "i" nor
a long "i." For me, it's a long "e" (ee). Is it a long "e" sound for
you as well, or somewhere between "ih" and "ee"?

For me, the last syllables of "machine" and "between" rhyme.

Carol, who doesn't think of the "i" in "machine" as an "i" sound at
all, any more than the "g" in "cough" has a "g" sound