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duh!

Gomi no Sensei gomi at speakeasy.net
Wed Feb 2 15:42:10 PST 2005

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Ike Porter wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Joy Jennifer Nicholson wrote:
>
> >
> > I can certainly distinguish "merry" from the other two.  I'm not aware of
> > a difference in pronunciation between "marry" and "Mary".
> >
> > > So who here can verbally distinguish between "merry", "marry", and "Mary"?
>
> I say Mary with a stronger first syllable emphasis than marry. Hm.

The pronounciation difference between a single and a double r is pretty
distinct to my ear, but then I'm fluent in Spanish.

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