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Anonymous ID:LW3D/zp8 Wed 27 Jun 2018 15:51:34 No.5654466 View View Reply Original Report

Can we settle this for good?
Is it FREE or TREE? Wikitionary says free but with an F that sounds like a lisp. In spite of that I keep hearing foreigners saying three. Who's right?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-us-three.ogg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/En-us-free.ogg

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Anonymous ID:Ium715Ha Wed 27 Jun 2018 15:54:24 No.5654478 Report

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Anonymous ID:yvEMIukq Wed 27 Jun 2018 16:49:51 No.5654862 Report

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>>5654466
Neither its "Thu-ree"

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Anonymous ID:cUxbQdC0 Wed 27 Jun 2018 16:51:37 No.5654870 Report

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>>5654466
I don't get the question. It's three.

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Anonymous ID:LgPG6db8 Wed 27 Jun 2018 17:05:44 No.5654963 Report

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>>5654466
Bongs: Me 'n' me fwee mates Leslie, Pat, Terry, Chris and Sam the gobshite was down the pub roight...

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Anonymous ID:LW3D/zp8 Wed 27 Jun 2018 17:10:22 No.5654995 Report

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>>5654870
>I don't get the question.
I can't be the only one who gets confused by this. Three and free sound almost identical.

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Anonymous ID:LgPG6db8 Wed 27 Jun 2018 17:25:05 No.5655108 Report

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>>5654995
Only because your ear isn't trained to those phonemes. Japanese hear no difference whatsoever between lake and rake.

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Anonymous ID:5V3IGNUo Wed 27 Jun 2018 17:27:26 No.5655132 Report

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