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In english words change meaning just by slightly changing accent. Ship, sheep buy, by sheet, shit see also http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/homop

• DanBC 11y ago
  Many people are going to pronounce "buy", "by", and "bye" exactly the same way. The only way to tell the difference would be from how the word is used in a sentence.
• igravious 11y ago
  Wiktionary lists bi, buy, and by as homophones to bye https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bye https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bye IPA: /baɪ/
• foldr 11y ago
  The difference between 'ship' and 'sheep' and 'sheet' and 'shit' is the difference between a tense and a lax vowel. Italian doesn't make use of this distinction, so it's hard for Italians to hear the difference, but it's a perfectly ordinary distinction in vowel quality used in many languages. There is no difference at all in the pronunciation of 'buy' and 'by'.
• stordoff 11y ago
  This also varies between English accents. Many American-English accents will pronounce "Mary", "merry", and "marry" the same, but in British-English they all sound different.
• deleted 11y ago
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