I was also startled to find out from an author's note that one of my friends pronounced Carrie to rhyme with "hairy."

::blink::

there's another way to say it?

Fred Pete! Mukwonago! Sorry. So another fellow Wisconsinite and got excited. And you can't forget Oconomowoc.

My hometown is Wausau, and it got a mention in the Liberace TV bio-movie some years back. They mispronounced it to sound like "Warsaw." It's WAH-sah.

Fred Pete, did you say RAY-seen or ruh-SEEN for the city of Racine? I grew up saying it ruh-SEEN and it always threw me when I heard other Wisconsin folks saying it the other way.

I've always pronounced Carrie the way I would if it began with a lower case c and ended in a y. Carry. Carrie.

I've always pronounced Carrie the way I would if it began with a lower case c and ended in a y. Carry. Carrie.

Which rhymes with hairy, drat it.

I guess it could be pronounced to rhyme with "starry," but then it's usually spelled Kari.

John, that reading sounds like it was great. I have The Envy.

Thanks, Plei. I wasn't shooting for Envy, but I'll take it. t greedy

I did a writeup for the Kay site, brightweavings.com, because people in other cities on GGK's tour have posted and I enjoyed their stuff, so I thought I'd return the favour. I figured Literary was a good place for it here. Sadly, I had to post in the middle of the great misplaced pronunciation skirmish, but them's as interested will see it on the way by.

ObOnT: I also sometimes hear carrie/carry with a flatter A, like car-ry. Viz: Kansas, Carry On Our Wayward Son. Scots tend to pronounce words like that more ah than eh, like my first name.

Which rhymes with hairy, drat it.

but - but - I say them entirely differently! "Hairy" has an almost extra syllable in it: "hay-ahry." For me, Carrie rhymes with Harry.

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

Er, so, the a in arrow and the e in error are... different?

Huh.

Y'all have too many sounds in your English.

Anyone else seen this? (It's book-related, and I'm not caught up in Natter yet.)

The parents of an elementary school pupil are fuming over the book their daughter brought home from the school library: a children's story about a prince whose true love turns out to be another prince.

Michael Hartsell said he and his wife, Tonya, couldn't believe it when Prince Bertie, the leading character in "King & King," waves off a bevy of eligible princes before falling for Prince Lee.

The book ends with the princes marrying and sharing a kiss.

"I was flabbergasted," Hartsell said. "My child is not old enough to understand something like that, especially when it is not in our beliefs."

Y'all have too many sounds in your English.

You, on the other hand, are wasting perfectly good combinations of letters.