Originally Posted by Tiffani Jameson
Any time a vowel is followed by double consonants, it's short sound is pronounced.
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Originally Posted by Chainsaw Anthropologist
Any time, as in an absolute? 
Well, I find it rather telling that with very little effort I managed to create this sentence that blows the hell out of that statement. There are many cases where it may not be effective* to say that said pairing of consonants and vowels ALWAYS affects the pronunciation as you say.
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well, they arent pronounced...
weeell
teeell
eeeeffort
heeell
tho, those aren't sufficient to prove or disprove tiffani's statement.
btw, tiffani, where did you find that pronounciation guide??
i google searched for the sentence and found this...
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2358525
.....a link in post #4
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http://www.multimedia-english.com/ph...ing_vowels.php
....and a pretty good explanation in post#9
even the norwegians use the "rule". and the japanese [in another search result]
http://www.101languages.net/norwegian/vowels.html
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wtf???
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