[Magdalen] Mary, Marry, and Merry

[Scott Knitter]

I understand western NY is in the same accent region as Detroit, Chicago,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cleveland, etc. - Inland Northern, I think?

When I went to Rochester, N.Y., on business (first visit to that city) to
work on a project at the old Kodak HQ, I was surprised the people who lived
there didn't "sound like New Yorkers." I thought they sounded midwestern,
but it was just that sort of Great Lakes accent, flat vowels and all. I'm
sure I fit right in, accent-wise.

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:56 PM Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA