Post #2604165
2026-05-09 14:57 UTC
"steal higher" took me a couple reads. Steal doesn't sound like "still" in whatever accent I speak.
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@hakase@lemmy.zip 2026-05-09 16:05
They're homophonous in a few southeastern US accents and most African-American English (AAE) speakers. It's usually called the [feel/fill merger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/l/#Fill%E2%80%93feel_merger), one of a few different mergers before /l/.