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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."

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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.

Steph L. - Mar 18, 2004 6:29:39 pm PST #1548 of 10002

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Mary has the same sound as "air." Merry has the same vowel as "egg." Marry has the same vowel as "cat."

So, they're theoretically pronounced M-air-ee (Mary), M-eh-ree (Merry), and M-aah-ree (Marry)?

dcp - Mar 18, 2004 6:35:41 pm PST #1549 of 10002

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

My step-mother went to elementary school in Ithaca NY, then junior high in Atlanta GA. When she started high school in Sacramento CA she was told she had a "speech defect" and sent to remedial English. Made her so mad she is now a Ph.D. in linguistics.

Hil R. - Mar 18, 2004 7:13:00 pm PST #1550 of 10002

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

So, they're theoretically pronounced M-air-ee (Mary), M-eh-ree (Merry), and M-aah-ree (Marry)?

Yes.

One of my cousins lived in Western Massachusetts until he was 6, and then his family moved to California. His school put him into speech therapy because they thought he couldn't pronounce the letter R.

Anne W. - Mar 19, 2004 1:08:22 am PST #1551 of 10002

The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

So, they're theoretically pronounced M-air-ee (Mary), M-eh-ree (Merry), and M-aah-ree (Marry)?

I can make the distinction if I really, really try, but it's more trouble than it's worth.

Jessica - Mar 19, 2004 3:27:30 am PST #1552 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I had a camp counselor once named Merry, and we used to spend hours sitting around the cabin going "Mary....Merry....Mary....Merry...Mary..." to see if anyone could hear the difference. What we found out was that we all thought we were pronouncing them differently, but in reality, nobody else could hear it.

Fred Pete - Mar 19, 2004 3:46:52 am PST #1553 of 10002

Ann, that's a ferret.

Kiddleeiveytoowooodenchew?

My old tag line!

Vortex - Mar 19, 2004 4:13:16 am PST #1554 of 10002

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

So, I click on the challenged books link to get some new reading material and find this:

"Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson, for offensive language and occult/satanism.

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!? Now, it's been a while since I read the book, but I think there's one "damn".

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