Are you actually unable to hear the /e/ sound? You keep claiming it’s the /ɛ/ sound. Are your ears really that broken that you can’t distinguish the two?
Bro idk phonetics but let and may have the same e sound and may has a dipthong that ends in a i/y sound, and yes i understand in French there are three different e sounds that i as an American English speaker cannot discern.
Let uses /ɛ/ and rhymes with pet, wet, sweat, duet, etc.
May uses /e/, and the California pronunciation is /me̞ː/ it’s not a diphthong, just a long vowel sound
there are three different e sounds that i as an American English speaker cannot discern.
Sure you can. Unless you think that the two vowels in “entrain” or “explain” or “enchain” have the same sound, you’re aware of both the /ɛ/ and /e/ sounds, and you know they’re different. If you can hear the difference between the two vowels in “obtain” then you can hear the difference between /ə/ and /e/.
So apparently you pronounce may like “meh” which is some kind of UK thing but not in north america
No, I pronounce may with a “Close-mid front unrounded vowel”, “meh” would be a “Open-mid front unrounded vowel”
It’s a dipthong bro idk what else to tell you, like maybe a scottish accent pronounces it like that
I don’t know why you keep inventing places where it doesn’t happen, when in your own accent it’s not a diphthong.
Okay well have a nice deh as you pronounce on your planet
Are you actually unable to hear the /e/ sound? You keep claiming it’s the /ɛ/ sound. Are your ears really that broken that you can’t distinguish the two?
Bro idk phonetics but let and may have the same e sound and may has a dipthong that ends in a i/y sound, and yes i understand in French there are three different e sounds that i as an American English speaker cannot discern.
Not according to any dictionary I’ve ever seen.
Let uses /ɛ/ and rhymes with pet, wet, sweat, duet, etc.
May uses /e/, and the California pronunciation is /me̞ː/ it’s not a diphthong, just a long vowel sound
Sure you can. Unless you think that the two vowels in “entrain” or “explain” or “enchain” have the same sound, you’re aware of both the /ɛ/ and /e/ sounds, and you know they’re different. If you can hear the difference between the two vowels in “obtain” then you can hear the difference between /ə/ and /e/.
Yes schwa i can hear, entrain explain and enchain all rhyme perfectly and they all have ai as a dipthong