Mary/merry/marry
There's a difference between these? Seriously?
I *do* hear pen/pin.
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2004 8:01:45 am PST #1516 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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?
Vortex - Mar 18, 2004 10:02:08 am PST #1523 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Before we get off this topic, can someone clear up if it's pronounced Buff-is-ta or Buff-ees-ta?
The latter. Like Sandanista.
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2004 10:12:05 am PST #1524 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Philly/PA with a hint of the South, to my ear. You've got a slightly softened version of the accent that my PA friends/roomies of old had (I assume they still have them, but college was an age ago.)
I think I pronounce milk melk. Unless it's a verb. Then it's milk.
John, that reading sounds like it was great. I have The Envy.
msbelle - Mar 18, 2004 10:17:45 am PST #1525 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
My grandmother who was raised in Misourri, pronounces it Mi-zur-uh. I pronounce is differently depending on where I am.
The joys of growing up in Texas but not with Texan parents and then moving to NYC is the tendancy to mark my speech by whom I am around. Recently I have been encourgaed by a few people to redevelop the Texan qualities of my speech.