グリンピース

Etymology
The same as. The English phrase contains two instances of the long vowel  (the first in, the second in ), only the second of which is respected in this Japanese transcription as a proper long vowel. This has been cited as an example of what is called by American linguist "prenasal vowel shortening", the shortening of a long vowel or diphthong before the nasal, which reflects a tendency of Japanese to avoid a  with three or more morae introduced by loanwords. In this case, such form as would, by the typical definition, be a single syllable with three morae (both the lengthening  and the nasal  are morae that cannot form distinct syllables on their own), which necessitates the shortening of the vowel to reduce the syllable's weight. This phenomenon, albeit not universal, is responsible for other seemingly irregular transcriptions such as, , , etc.