I watched a short video tonight in which a black girl from America told a
Japanese ghost story. Odd combination, but there you are. The story was about
three boys in a park who see a ghostly little girl on a swing. Two of the boys
see her as being sad and looking at the ground, while the third boy insists she’s
looking directly at him and smiling. The next day, the third boy gets killed in
a car crash. It purports to be a true story.
But that isn’t the point of the post. The point of the post
is:
The black girl had a rather splendid accent. (She sounded
like Zoe to me. Remember Zoe? I do. I’m sure I said that before.) So, I’d like
some American to tell me what American accent opens up the ‘i’ in ‘hill’ and
pronounces it more like ‘heel.’ I don’t suppose any American will, because life’s
like that, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
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