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.
Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
'Shindig'
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."
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2004 11:42:16 am PST #1532 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
Alicia K - Mar 18, 2004 11:58:01 am PST #1533 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I guess it could be pronounced to rhyme with "starry," but then it's usually spelled Kari.
JohnSweden - Mar 18, 2004 11:59:46 am PST #1534 of 10002
I can't even.
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.
deborah grabien - Mar 18, 2004 12:25:02 pm PST #1535 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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.
Katie M - Mar 18, 2004 1:01:21 pm PST #1536 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
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.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2004 1:20:45 pm PST #1537 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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."
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2004 1:22:56 pm PST #1538 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Y'all have too many sounds in your English.
You, on the other hand, are wasting perfectly good combinations of letters.
brenda m - Mar 18, 2004 2:10:25 pm PST #1539 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
RAY-seen
Definitely this. (I'm from Milwaukee, btw). Then there's New BERlin, of course. Wasn't there a commercial for something some years back making fun of Oconomowoc ("on account of what?")?
I'm as stumped as Plei is on hairy Carrie, as opposed to Harry Carey's, where I'm shortly headed for drinks.
beth b - Mar 18, 2004 2:15:56 pm PST #1540 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I guess it could be pronounced to rhyme with "starry," but then it's usually spelled Kari.
one sister is Kari prononced Carrie which is the same as carry and harry and hairy
Aims - Mar 18, 2004 2:18:25 pm PST #1541 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Marezee doats and doezee doats.