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DavidS - Mar 18, 2004 7:45:19 am PST #1513 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I think the most amusing college freshman regional dialect experience I had was with my neighbor from central California, where apparently there is no difference between the soft "e" and the soft "i." People in the dorm spent hours trying to convince the poor girl that "ten" and "tin" or "pen" and "pin" should be pronounced differently. She couldn't even *hear* the difference, let alone reproduce it.

I'm like this, and I think Betsy has copped to it as well. Caught me quite a lot of teasing since I attended Kenyon College.

Susan W. - Mar 18, 2004 7:54:27 am PST #1514 of 10002

Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Southerners don't distinguish pen/pin or Mary/merry/marry either. Took me years to hear the difference, and my pronunciation slides back and forth between Southern and East Coast still.

Of course, I don't even know what kind of accent I have anymore. I certainly don't sound like a local native, but I don't think I sound Bama or Philly either.

Strix - Mar 18, 2004 7:54:50 am PST #1515 of 10002

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

lived in St. Joe in the fifth grade, and I assume that's where I picked it up.

Ginger, that's my hometown! What school, what year? (Uh, if you don't mind.)

Steph L. - Mar 18, 2004 8:01:45 am PST #1516 of 10002

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Mary/merry/marry

There's a difference between these? Seriously?

I *do* hear pen/pin.

Susan W. - Mar 18, 2004 8:03:18 am PST #1517 of 10002

Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

With a Philly accent (and many other East Coast ones), Mary sounds like how the rest of the country pronounces all three. Merry has a distinctive short "e" sound with no trace of an "a", while marry has a short "a".

deborah grabien - Mar 18, 2004 8:09:30 am PST #1518 of 10002

It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Is it supposed to be pronounced "-shr

Yup. I hear "shy-er" and even "sheer".

Edinburgh, Deb. I'm weeping at a true believer "borough"-ing us.

You'd better be winking, bro. That was deliberate, and I can't believe you're the only one to catch it. (I loves me some Edinburgh, Eddinburra, Edinborough.....)

Ginger - Mar 18, 2004 8:33:58 am PST #1519 of 10002

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Erin, it was Eugene Field Elementary, and it would have been around 1964. Long before you were born, I suspect. My dad was working at the Swift plant. My mother still keeps up with some people we knew there.

Beverly - Mar 18, 2004 8:47:38 am PST #1520 of 10002

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Marry is like arrow, merry and Mary sound almost identical, like error.

§ ita § - Mar 18, 2004 9:13:33 am PST #1521 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm now seeing (hearing) poor Meriadoc being called Mary.

Wolfram - Mar 18, 2004 10:00:19 am PST #1522 of 10002

Visilurking

Before we get off this topic, can someone clear up if it's pronounced Buff-is-ta or Buff-ees-ta?

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