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PhuturePriest

There is a world of difference between Maritime and Prairie Canadian English.

 

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Do some of y'all seriously call a roundabout a traffic circle?

 

 

Ive seen them called strange things too but Im used to calling them roundabouts!

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How? I know "Merry" is sometimes pronounced "murry", but how do you pronounce "Mary" and "marry" differently? Most people in America pronounce all three words like "Mary".

 

That's not how you say "merry". And Mary and marry are completely different!

 

Mary is pronounced like mare with a 'y' sound at the end. 

Marry has the same 'a' sound as 'sad'

Merry has an 'eh' sound at the vowel

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Not The Philosopher

I appreciate y'all because English no longer being able to distinguish between second person plural and singular is just silly.

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That's not how you say "merry". And Mary and marry are completely different!

Mary is pronounced like mare with a 'y' sound at the end.
Marry has the same 'a' sound as 'sad'
Merry has an 'eh' sound at the vowel


Interesting. It just sounds funny when I try to say them differently.
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we call them rotaries, but they are also fondly referred to as traffic circles of death.

 

The driving here gets pretty screwy :(

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PhuturePriest

That's not how you say "merry". And Mary and marry are completely different!

 

Mary is pronounced like mare with a 'y' sound at the end. 

Marry has the same 'a' sound as 'sad'

Merry has an 'eh' sound at the vowel

 

Not in America, they're not. "Mary" and "Marry" are pronounced the same exact way, with the "Mare" noise.

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