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"How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?" (media.piefed.world)

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.