raising produce homophones in American English?

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Oct 5 at 17:48	comment	added	tchrist♦		Related.
Jan 2, 2021 at 0:19	history	edited	tchrist♦		edited tags
Aug 11, 2019 at 7:00	answer	added	herisson		timeline score: 2
Jul 18, 2019 at 20:36	comment	added	Tuffy		Strangely, I think that it was the British upper class that used to pronounce 'band' like 'bend' (few if any today).
Jul 18, 2019 at 14:33	comment	added	Peter Shor		I hear a difference between band and bend in the YouTube video, but they're not very different. And notice that the second and third pronunciations are just the first pronunciations elongated; I'm not sure whether anybody really draws these vowels out that long.
Jul 18, 2019 at 12:21	comment	added	Mitch		I don't hear any difference at all, but that doesn't mean much because it is easy to fool oneself knowing what the answer is supposed to be. Being a native speaker means having lots of different sounds recognized as the same but similarly making lots of distinctions where others don't. And this works between varieties (one person's rhyme is another's clunker. That said, diphthongizing [ɛ] -> [ɛə] seems characteristic of the 'Deep South' American accent, but the rest of the youtube voice doesn't sound southern to me. (this is a very small sample though)
Jul 18, 2019 at 11:18	comment	added	Peter Shor		In many dialects, band → bend and bend → binned, resulting in the words bend and binned being homophones (commonly known as the pen-pin merger).
Jul 18, 2019 at 9:41	history	asked	Disodium	CC BY-SA 4.0