get - Geet vs Geht

When do you pronounc geet and when do you pronounce geht?

That depends on what you mean by "geet" & "geht". I always pronounce it as /get/ using the Internation Phonetic Alphabet.

It's pronounced "git" in American English

<<It's pronounced "git" in American English>>

Maybe in a few places, but not around here. I'm guessing that your "Geht" spelling is how we'd pronounce it here, and throughout much of the US.

It's always "geht" (short E) for me. I've never heard anyone say "geet" (long E).

I always pronounce the word "get" as "geht" ["gEt], and this is definitely the most common pronunciation in American English. I know that some Southerners pronounce it as "git" ["gIt], but I've never heard of anyone pronouncing it as "geet" ["git].

I myself normally pronounce "get" as ["gE?] but in more careful speech on one hand I not uncommonly pronounce it as ["gEt] and in more informal speech on the other hand I very often pronounce it as ["gE]. Note, though, that the ["gE] pronunciation is most likely due to glottal stop elision and primarily shows up in positions wherre ["gE?] can show up; however, it will at times show up before words starting with vowels, unlike ["gE?], and these positions are likely due to intervocalic alveolar flap elision.

Note that I generally pronounce "get" as ["gE4] before words starting with vowels besides the case of ["gE].

It's pronounced get [gEt] in General American, with an open E
(but closer than AE)... get [get] ([e] is closed e in IPA) ) is Southern Pronunciation.

Also, there are many shifts in the US/Canadian English, so
get can be pronounced as [gAEt] in some accents.

I assume that by [gAEt] you mean IPA [gæt], or X-SAMPA [g{t]. If you'd like to write words phonetically/phonemically on Antimoon (because, unfortunately, most of the special IPA characters are unavailable here), I'd advise you to use X-SAMPA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA ) which is a simple conversion of IPA symbols to an ASCII format.

Here in the Pacific Northwest, most people pronounce it as "git" [gIt], although some pronounce it "get" [gEt].

<It's always "geht" (short E) for me>

Me too, only sometimes I drop the t.

I guess that in much of New Zealand they pronounce it like 'git' [gIt]. am I right?

>> I guess that in much of New Zealand they pronounce it like 'git' [gIt]. am I right? <<
Yeah, I think so. I remember reading something about the NZ vowel shift where a -> e, and e->i.

It should be pronounced so that it rhymes with the word "bet" although many non-English people who speak English 9or as close to English for them as is possible) such as the Scots sometimes pronounce it as "geet" or any number of other weird pronounciations.