Mary/merry/marry

[Sorsha]

Dairy, cherry and carry all rhyme though

I do think gym/gem and pin/pen sound different.

This. Exactly.

From the inland Pacific Northwest.

 

[Buckalew11]

All different. But I'm from NJ.

Where a pen is something you write with and a pin is something you sew with. Ten is a number and tin makes a can.

Carry does not rhyme with dairy. Carry rhymes with marry. lol These are always so funny to see/hear.

I'm not sure how some kids ever learn to spell. I remember moving to TN in the 4th grade and I thought I might fail because until the teacher used words in a sentence, I could not tell many words from another.

Around here pin and pen is the same word. The word Sprite is said sprat. The word pants is often said "Paints." Hair is very often har. So, I give har cuts, lol.

I would never name my child Brian, Ryan, or anything with a long i sound while living in TN. (Bra-en, Ra-en) Said with a short a sound. OMGosh, lol.

 

[mmouse37]

- these words are three different words- do not sound alike!



LOL--if you had a test in school here and you wrote down those words rhymed you would get a big fat zero on it LOL.

Ditto....different words that are pronounced and sound completely different from each other....and they don't rhyme.

This discussion reminds me of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56laCEgsINY

MJ

 

[jahber]

All different. But I'm from NJ.

Where a pen is something you write with and a pin is something you sew with. Ten is a number and tin makes a can.

Carry does not rhyme with dairy. Carry rhymes with marry. lol These are always so funny to see/hear.

I'm not sure how some kids ever learn to spell. I remember moving to TN in the 4th grade and I thought I might fail because until the teacher used words in a sentence, I could not tell many words from another.

Around here pin and pen is the same word. The word Sprite is said sprat. The word pants is often said "Paints." Hair is very often har. So, I give har cuts, lol.

I would never name my child Brian, Ryan, or anything with a long i sound while living in TN. (Bra-en, Ra-en) Said with a short a sound. OMGosh, lol.

I never knew I had an accent (born and bred in Fl) until I met my college roommate from Boston. I loved to tease her pronunciation of Mary, Merry, marry and even squirrel (which is more like a one-syllable word--skwoorl--down here) because I didn't HAVE an accent.
Finally one day she told me I had an accent, too, and told me I say flawr for flower and bahble for Bible. And dang it, but she was right! In fact, my 6yo missed a couple of phonics questions on his standardized test this year because, for example, we don't pronounce the h in whisper. As a former student of linguistics, it just makes me laugh that we all think *we* talk "right". But note to self: teach my kids to talk like northerners so they get better scores on their standardized tests!

Edited to add: my Bostonian roommate was truly the first person I had ever met who pronounced Mary, merry, and marry differently!

 

[sunshinehighway]

All different.

Dairy/cherry/carry do not rhyme, not even close to rhyming

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Before watching that video, I would have said all three where the same, but then I really listened, and figured out that I slip in between "Mary/marry" being different or the same. Merry is always the same as Mary.

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-m...-a-difference-between-merry-mary-and-marry-22

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Along those same lines:
Mary rhymes with dairy.

Merry rhymes with cherry.

Marry rhymes with carry.

To me, dairy, cherry, and carry all have the same vowel sound

D-air-y, ch-air-y, c-air-y

M-air-y got m-air-ied and we were all m-air-y.

M-air-y Christmas!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

To me, dairy, cherry, and carry all have the same vowel sound

D-air-y, ch-air-y, c-air-y

M-air-y got m-air-ied and we were all m-air-y.

M-air-y Christmas!

Yup!

But those of you who pronounce merry and Mary differently would not chuckle at my daughter's middle name. It is Mary-Noelle (Mary after my grandmother, Noelle because she was born in December). My Lamaze coach chuckled when I told her because she said it was like Merry Christmas.

 

[Admit One]

I live in NC (for now), but I am from Allentown, PA.

I say that Mary and Merry are the same.

Marry is different.

 

[I loveStitchnippyjon]

To me, dairy, cherry, and carry all have the same vowel sound

D-air-y, ch-air-y, c-air-y

M-air-y got m-air-ied and we were all m-air-y.

M-air-y Christmas!

That's how it sounds here too!

 

[whoiam]

All 3 sound the same to me. I'm trying so hard to hear a difference but I can't! And yes dairy and cherry rhyme.
From FL.

 

[Grandmouse]

Central Jersey and Pennsylvania here -- all three are totally different.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I live in NC (for now), but I am from Allentown, PA.

I say that Mary and Merry are the same.

Marry is different.

Central Jersey and Pennsylvania here -- all three are totally different.

So I'm just the weirdo, then

 

[cybrkitn]

From the web site: "Massachusetts, Long Island and Jersey are the only places that see a difference between Merry, Mary and marry. "

I'm on Long Island and I definitely hear a difference between all three.

 

[Pills]

I'm another LIer, but I went to college in the midwest, and married an Air Force brat.

Oddly, my MIL (who was the one in the Air Force) has a very strong midwest accent, and she pronounces them all the same. My wife, on the other hand, pronounces them all differently, and also always said "soda" and not "pop" beacuse she spent a bunch of time in California.

 

[cybrkitn]

Yep all three are different (coming from another born and bred Long Islander).

Here's a question for you - Do you pronounce the "g" in Long Island where it sound like you are saying "Lon Gilsland?" That's another controversy we have here as well We had that discussion at the Adventurers Club back when I was 19 (IIRC). We all had a good laugh!

 

[ZephyrHawk]

In Michigan, Mary and marry are the same, but merry is different.

 

[JRawkSteady]

Yep all three are different (coming from another born and bred Long Islander).

 

[JRawkSteady]

Here's a question for you - Do you pronounce the "g" in Long Island where it sound like you are saying "Lon Gilsland?" That's another controversy we have here as well We had that discussion at the Adventurers Club back when I was 19 (IIRC). We all had a good laugh!

Usually, Baby Boomers (and the first few years of Gen X) and before pronounces the "G" like that, but I've noticed that most people born in the 80s or later are cutting that terrible sound out of their speech.

 

[kimmyann]

Before watching that video, I would have said all three where the same, but then I really listened, and figured out that I slip in between "Mary/marry" being different or the same. Merry is always the same as Mary.

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-m...-a-difference-between-merry-mary-and-marry-22

Our local news just posted this link on Facebook this morning & it's pretty much right on target with me. I guess I'm the only one who pronounces crayon as crown. I also pronounce idea as idear.