On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:57:40 -0800 (PST), Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > So who here can verbally distinguish between "merry", "marry", and > "Mary"? When I say them, I think I hear differences. But my mother Mary Dawn objects when she hears someone call her Mary Don. I hear the difference when I say it, but don't hear the difference when she says it, so I'm not sure the difference makes it out of our head. Brits (or at least English), complain when USAmericans treat Harry and Hairy as homonyms. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/