> -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Hart [mailto:philiph at slac.stanford.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:58 AM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: duh! > > So who here can verbally distinguish between "merry", > "marry", and "Mary"? > > I can't distinguish between "Mary" and "merry". But I pronoucne "marry" slightly differntly than either. Other people don't always do this, so if someone else were to say the word I might not notice any difference. Shawn