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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can anyone from Philly or Jersey or Mass. actually explain this with IPA or something?

The rest of us are genuinely baffled as to how ya'll are doing this.

Don't make me post the Pam 'they're the same' meme.

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[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ok so not native speaker but lived in Rhode Island for a long while. Here's what I hear:

ˈmeəɹi, ˈmæɹi, and ˈmɛɹi as in Mary, Marry, and merry. Longish a, short a, short e.

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

I'm from NJ and these are all different sounds to me. This short shows the difference: https://youtube.com/shorts/S3EaMZUXQYs

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mary–marry–merry merger

~~Geoff Lindsey on YouTube might have a video on the topic. He's great at explaining phonetics of modern English.~~ Lindsey mentions the merger here, but only very briefly.

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