[Magdalen] Mary, Marry, and Merry

[Ann Markle]

I still say them the same way, unless I'm really working at it (and I'm
usually NOT).

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu


On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 4:11 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here's how I hear the three words in, let's say, East Coast accents (I know
> there are many):
>
> Mary = MARE-ee  --first syllable of medium length
>
> marry = MA (from "map") - ree   -- first syllable rather long
>
> merry = MEH (from "meth") - ree   --first syllable quite short
>
> And yes, here in Chicago, all three of these are likely to be said the
> first way.
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 2:56 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > It is said one cam spot an Upper Midwesterner by how he/she
> > pronouncesthese three words - Mary, marry, and merry.
> > In some English speaking areas all three have distinctive different
> > pronunciations.In other English speaking areas world wide two of three
> have
> > identical pronunciations.In the USA Upper Midwest, all three have the
> same
> > pronunciation.
> >
> > In any case, May is the traditional month of Mary.
> > In the local Procathedral, the choir used to give Mary her dueby chanting
> > from back in the apse the Marian antiphon for Eastertide:We abided by the
> > notion that you can get by with anything if yousimply sing it in Latin:
> > The Regina Caeli
> >
> > Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia.Quia quem meruisti portare,
> > alleluiaResurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.
> >
> > Queen of heaven be joyful, alleluia.For He whom you have humbly borne,
> > alleluia.Has risen as he said, alleluia..Pray to God for us, alleluia.
> >
> >
> > David Strang.
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>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>