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This thread just made my day, been laughing real hard these last minutes
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While the undiscerning ear may hear "reed," I am in fact pronouncing the contracted diphthong, rĕ-əd, in which no long 'e' sound is present.
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i believe you cropped your avatar a little too high up and eliminated the interesting part
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Here you go...your new avatar.
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I think it would give people the wrong idea. I do have plenty of red hair, but most of it is places other than my scalp.
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MOE-bull-reed here, and I do recommend it (us??) to anyone who'll listen!
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Really, though, English-speaking peoples should take back their diphthongs. This "a after e is pronounced eeeeee" business is some post-Norman bullpucky.
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