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Why Some of Y'all Talk Funny

Syrup, hoagie and sneakers places me in a pretty confined (and accurate) area
 
lbE08 said:
Yeah, i say Mary/merry
/marry all te same but do recognize that other people say them differently (and why). Same with Aaron and Erin. I say them the same, but get that they're different.
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I have never heard anyone pronounds any of those differently. I can't even imagine what such things sound like.
 
lbE08 said:
My friends mom, who is from Long Island, tried to teach me the difference between Erin/Aaron. Erin = air-in Aaron = aah-ron. Blew my mind, I still can't do it.

She'd probably say merry = mair-y, marry = Maaaarry (with the a having the same aa sound as apple), and Mary as almost mah-ry.
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I am sitting at my desk trying to say these different Ms and it is absurdly hard to do.
 
I don't understand the pen/pin thing. Do you think hen and win rhyme?
 
I can force myself to say merry and marry differently, but I don't know how to differentiate marry and Mary.
 
bojanglefunk said:
I am sitting at my desk trying to say these different Ms and it is absurdly hard to do.
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Yeah, I was more or less talking to myself on the train as I tried to figure out how to phonetically spell them.
 
I don't say Mary and marry very different but merry is more of an e sound. If I do Mary/marry different the only way I can describe it is the 'a' in marry is a bit airier.
 
awakeandready said:
I don't say Mary and marry very different but merry is more of an e sound. If I do Mary/marry different the only way I can describe it is the 'a' in marry is a bit airier.
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Like meh-ry vs mare-y?
 
I find the mayo one fascinating. I thought people only said it with 3 syllables as a joke.
 
DeacHawk said:
Mary, like Cary
Merry, like berry, or John Kerry
Marry, stuck on this one
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everyone trying to explain this is funny...Cary and Kerry are the same to me...and Berry rhymes with fairy rhymes with Harry
 
DeacHawk said:
actually just went through the link with the maps, and I'm from NJ so that may explain why I hear them as different :noidea:
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Definitely it. I am such a strange mix of sNJ and the south.
 
ChicdeaC said:
everyone trying to explain this is funny...Cary and Kerry are the same to me...and Berry rhymes with fairy rhymes with Harry
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I agree.

Note to the explainers: giving us other words that are pronounced the same as the three Ms is not going to help. We also pronounce those like we do the three Ms. The three Ms are just an illustration of how we pronounce that entire family of sounds.
 
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