I don t at all propose that it should be transcribed as me n in this or any other article If anything at all just a brief mention of the raising of TRAP and MOUTH in a pre nasal environment would suffice I just thought it was an American thing to raise before nasals I do it myself but I often hear Aussies do it quite a bit as well and I don t hear English people do it at all The only difference is that Americans have a tendency to diphthongize it as well as raising it I m not really surprised you don t have a broad accent being a Wikipedian I m not saying it s not possible You re right I was just kind of thinking aloud