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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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The pronunciation of 'same'
The pronunciation of 'same' is [sem] or [Seim]? I think both are fine and acceptable. What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual.
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Ya you are correct really it can be called in both terms....
- Ya you are correct really it can be called in both terms....
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In standard British English, RP, it can be only /se?m/, a diphthong, with the starting point close to the IPA cardinal vowels [e] or [?]. In other varieties of BrE, there is a wide range of variation, some of them diphthongs, some monophthongs.
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Same rhymes with name, game, and tame. To pronounce it as rhyming with stem, hem, and them is not right (this is a major pronunciation error which is very often made by non-native speakers).
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