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@ -244,12 +244,7 @@ have no correspondence to the pronunciation. E.g.:
> "meet" vs. "meat"
The vowels are spelled differently, yet they rhyme.
Fun fact: They used to be pronounced differently in Middle English during the
invention of the printing press and standardized spelling. The [Great Vowel
Shift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift) happened after, and is
why they are now pronounced the same.
The vowels are spelled differently, yet they rhyme [^1].
So if the spelling of the words is useless in telling us if two words rhyme,
what can we use instead?
@ -261,7 +256,7 @@ The IPA is an alphabet that can represent all varieties of human pronunciation.
* meet: /mit/
* meat: /mit/
Note: this is only the IPA transcription for only one **accent** of English.
Note that this is only the IPA transcription for only one **accent** of English.
Some English speakers may pronounce these words differently which could be
represented by a different IPA transcription.
@ -510,3 +505,11 @@ you'll be almost ready to run a TensorFlow port of word-rnn:
I plan on playing around with NNs a lot more to see what kind of poetry-looking
text I can generate from them.
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[^1]:
Fun fact: They used to be pronounced differently in Middle English during
the invention of the printing press and standardized spelling. The [Great
Vowel Shift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift) happened
after, and is why they are now pronounced the same.