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. pe