[Magdalen] Mary, Marry, and Merry

[Christopher Hart]

Testing my own pronunciation as best I can, I find that I (an easterner)
pronounce the first and third in a very similar fashion. Maybe there is a
slight tinge of the difference Scott describes, but it's hard to tell. The
middle one, relating to matrimony, is distinctly different from the other
two and pronounced much as Scott noted.

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:
>
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
> >
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> > David Strang.
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> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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