XPost: alt.english.usage, alt.usage.english, nl.taal   
   From: user5108@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Ruud Harmsen  posted:   
      
   > As a non-native speaker, can you hear, and make, the difference   
   > between “We built this city on rock and roll” (not one of my favourite   
   > songs by the way; don’t know why) and the present tense variant ‘We   
   > build this city …’?   
   >   
   > I can.   
   >   
   > Not hard, is it? Easier than ‘Henry VI’s throne’, anyway.   
   >   
   > Source: https://rudhar.com/fonetics/build.htm   
      
   By sound, build = billed, but built has no homophone, unless bill't is a word.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)