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[Gregory Sutter]

On 2003-04-16 12:09 -0700, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear at attbi.com> wrote:
> William Palfreman <william at palfreman.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Jeff Walters wrote:
> > 
> > > Yeah, but you guys (assuming you're from Britain) spell it colour and not
> > > color.  What gives? :)
> > 
> > Because that's how it's pronounced.  English often has more distinctive
> > vowel sounds than American English. We say it like col'er, you people
> > say coll-or.  Remember that for us, "Marry merry Mary" are three words
> > that actually sound different :-)
> 
> So how do "marry" and "Mary" differ?  Some Americans (with roots around
> Ohio, maybe) say "Mary" "May'-ree" (and my name "Gay'-ree" :-o ) and many
> say "marry" vs. "merry" (and "pin" vs. "pen") differently (though few
> people normally hear the difference and I suspect that few even know how
> they normally pronounce them).

This is a bit late, but worthwhile nonetheless.  Please do try to
read it aloud, especially if you're not a native English (of any
variety) speaker.

http://zer0.org/tmp/english-pronunciation.txt

Greg
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