Y'all have too many sounds in your English.
You, on the other hand, are wasting perfectly good combinations of letters.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
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."
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2004 1:22:56 pm PST #1538 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Volans - Mar 18, 2004 2:20:13 pm PST #1542 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Someone a while back asked it there was a term for when the Amry slapped two word together, like "humint" and there is. It's called "blending."
Thanks Erin! (Like "DefCon") I was about to decide it's called "AbCram" or something.
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2004 2:43:11 pm PST #1543 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Carrie rhymes with marry (as does Harry). Kerry rhymes with merry. Hairy comes very close to rhyming with Mary. Mary, merry, and marry are all pronounced differently. (In my New Yorkish accent, anyway.)
Mary has the same sound as "air." Merry has the same vowel as "egg." Marry has the same vowel as "cat." (Tried to think of words without r or n next to the vowel, since those tend to change the vowels around in some accents, but now that I think about it, I've heard people pronounce egg as "aig," so I'm not sure I'm not confusiing the issue more.)
Dani - Mar 18, 2004 3:41:35 pm PST #1544 of 10002
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
Fred Pete - Mar 18, 2004 5:13:59 pm PST #1545 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Fred Pete, did you say RAY-seen or ruh-SEEN for the city of Racine?
Ruh-SEEN. Right next to Kuh-NO-shuh.
Weirdest moment I ever had on that score was during high school, working at the Janesville (JANE'S-vil) McD's, waiting on someone who told me how nice JAN-es-vil was.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2004 5:29:42 pm PST #1546 of 10002
Marezeedoatsanddozeeetoatsandlittlelambseedivey. Kiddleeiveytoowooodenchew?
Ma/e/r/rr/ys are all the same to me. Pin and pen are different.
Ginger - Mar 18, 2004 5:56:19 pm PST #1547 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have sat here saying merry-mary-marry, and I can't hear a lick of difference. I have a Chicago accent altered by 35 years in the South, which pretty much means that I sound like a national newscaster who uses Southern idiom.