My name starts with an E which is fine having grown up in a place with the merger, but unbenounced to me the way I pronounce "E" is parced by pen/pincels as "ae" which, is a different name, and I have to strain a little bit to pronounce it in a way that is parced as "e" and it's a bit annoying to have to work to pronounce a sound distinction you yourself cannot pick up on lol
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in reply to @numberonebug's post:
hmmmm this is interesting, because theses involve different phonetic environments, there might be more going on here, other regional dialect features at play. Descriptions of the pen-pin merge I've seen usually say that the result in both cases is the "kit" vowel /ɪ/.
I wonder if your pronunciation of /ɛ/ is lower, like [æ] outside of nasal environments, which would merge it with [ɪ].
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