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I've been doing some phonetic readings lately, just to brush up a little on my streaming speech. Let's take the following sentences: A foolish young fellow once astonished an old clergyman by boasting that "he" didn't believe in anything "he" couldn't see and understand

here is the phonetic transcription by D. Jones : 1st he = i: (long i) 2nd he = hi: (the h here is in italics and therefore optional)

There are many such examples in my book "Phonetic Readings in English" by D. Jones

…when he'd weighed it, he placed it on the counter… wen i:d weid it, hi: (here the h is not in italics) pleist it… I hope this is clear enough.