YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

>AFAIK, all Americans pronounce "Mary" as /meiri/; the question is whether
No, not all.

>they pronounce "merry" and "marry" as /meiri/ also.  For me they are
>/mEri/ and /m&ri/ respectively.
[mE.4i], [mEr\r\i] [m&r\r\i] for me

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