Pro-tip in case you’re unsure:
- “Mary” is pronounced “Mary”.
- “Merry” is pronounced “merry”.
- “Marry” is pronounced “marry”.
You’re welcome.
- Mary rhymes with fairy.
- Merry rhymes with berry.
- Marry rhymes with carry.
Maybe this is a whoosh on my part, but for people who pronounce all the Mary’s the same, they tend to pronounce all of those words to rhyme as well.
So ferry rhymes with fairy?Edit: Is ferry is pronounced the same as fairy?
Yes?
I meant to ask “Is ferry is pronounced the same as fairy?”
In my dialect, yes.
It drove me crazy when I first moved out of New Jersey and heard so many people “mispronouncing” vowels like this. See also “pen” pronounced as “pin”, “Laura” and “Lara” being pronounced the same, etc. The “e” to “i” vowel shift in particular has become extremely prominent throughout much of the US.
How the hell do you pronounce pin different from pen
As someone from a red area, how tf are these pronounced differently?
His name is…
I think we can all agree that Ohio sucks. Pic unrelated.
Can anyone from Philly or Jersey or Mass. actually explain this with IPA or something?
The rest of us are genuinely baffled as to how ya’ll are doing this.
Don’t make me post the Pam ‘they’re the same’ meme.
I’m from NJ and these are all different sounds to me. This short shows the difference: https://youtube.com/shorts/S3EaMZUXQYs
Unpopular opinion 1: the us should invite some Brits and learn to speak regular English again.
Unpopular opinion 2: the us should split up and adopt their local version of English as their official language.
the us should invite some Brits and learn to speak regular English again.
Every state has to pick a different British dialect though
US English is , in some cases, more conservative than British English. A lot of words in the us were used by those from the UK that came. But later fell out of fashion in the UK
Even more unpopular opinion: British royals should hire Americans to relearn those unfashionable words lol
You think English in the UK hasn’t evolved in the last few hundred years?
Sure it did, I’m saying it remained regular.
The US has one of the oldest living dialects of English. Linguists argue whether Appalachian English is a mostly preserved dialect of 16th century Elizabethan English or an unusually conservative dialect of 18th century Colonial English.
Y’ont folks ta git back ta talkin right have em talk hillbilly.
Mary, Marry, Merry, and Maurry are all pronounced the same when I say them.
It really annoys Maurry. 😈
