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  Are Mary, Marry, and Merry homonyms? (search mode)
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#1
All three sound the same		  
#2
Mary sounds different from the other two		  
#3
Marry sounds different from the other two		  
#4
Merry sounds different from the other two		  
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All three sound different		  
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Intell
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« on: December 11, 2015, 10:55:42 PM »
All three sound different, though the first and last one are similar.
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Intell
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2015, 02:17:59 AM »
How the hell does M-e-rry (extended e sound), soud anything M-a-rry and M-ery (short e sound), specially for former.
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Intell
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2015, 04:31:02 AM »
« Edited: December 12, 2015, 08:48:21 AM by Intell »
Quote from: realisticidealist on December 12, 2015, 01:43:27 AM
Quote from: bedstuy on December 12, 2015, 12:59:30 AM
All different.

Mary has the same "a" sound as fairy.

Marry has the same "a" sound as Barry.

Merry doesn't have an "a" for crying out loud.

So Barry doesn't rhyme with fairy? Huh

Obviously not, whatt Huh
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Intell
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2015, 11:26:27 PM »
Quote from: Goldwater on December 13, 2015, 10:59:40 PM
Quote from: SomebodyWhoExists on December 13, 2015, 08:44:53 PM
Quote from: bedstuy on December 12, 2015, 12:59:30 AM
Mary has the same "a" sound as fairy.

Marry has the same "a" sound as Barry.

So, the same?

Yeah, sounds the same to me too...

B-ary
F-e-ry

There is a clear difference. Huh
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Intell
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« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2015, 01:14:01 AM »
Quote from: ilikeverin on December 13, 2015, 11:44:16 PM
Yes (Midwesterner).  They are all /ɛ/.

Good luck to the people who answered anything other than Option 1 how the three vowels differ from each other.

FWIW, let me try:

"merry" like in "bed"
"Mary" like in "May"
"marry" like in "mad"

Now let's try explaining to the Southerners how "pen" and "pin" sound different, or to the Westerners how "cot" and "caught" sound different Wink

Bed, May and May (e, ay and a) sounds all sound different.
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2015, 01:25:32 AM »
Quote from: bedstuy on December 19, 2015, 01:10:43 AM
Quote from: Goldwater on December 18, 2015, 01:50:47 PM
Quote from: bedstuy on December 18, 2015, 03:40:39 AM
You pronounce, Barry, Carry, Larry, Marry, Harry the same way?  So, you call someone named Harry, "Hairy?"

Yes.

Wrong!

Exactly, I agree with Bedstudy.
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