http://www.linglish.net Where English meets Linguistics Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:19:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.linglish.net/images/logo.png http://www.linglish.net 144 166 Where English meets Linguistics http://www.linglish.net/2009/01/03/buy-a-pie-for-the-spy/ http://www.linglish.net/2009/01/03/buy-a-pie-for-the-spy/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:13:21 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=483 During the holiday I spent much of my time on a local discussion forum, reading and discussing topics regarding the English language. One question that was raised again and again by local students was this: Why does the ‘p’ in spy sound somewhat different from the ‘p’ in pie, and in fact, for Chinese speakers, the [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2009/01/03/buy-a-pie-for-the-spy/feed/ 6