--- Mike Ellis wrote:
> Yad help me, I probably shouldn't reply.
Been reading Guy Gavriel Kay?
> This is not the kind of thing I tend to notice in conversation
> unless I'm making a point of picking it out. So I'll test this on a
> few people around here (Vancouver), and report the results.
So you're located in Vancouver? Me too!
> The way I say it, "Mary" is the same as "marry"
> and rhymes with "hairy" -- probably close to [mE:r\i].
> "Merry", on the other hand, rhymes with "ferry",
> probably close to [mEr\i]. Something like /meiri/ would
> sound to me like "may ree", whatever that might mean.
> This would be the only case in which actual vowel *length* matters
> a damn in the local 'lect. That is, IF I find other people make the
same distinction here that I do.
All those words rhyme to me, I think ending in [Er\i].
Estel
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