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I may have mentioned this in another thread on a similar topic once, but I have a friend from the upper Midwest who pronounces Harry like "hairy."
Yes, most Americans pronounce Harry this way...which is one reason it hasn't made any progress as a baby name in the US in recent years, despite the influence of Harry Potter. It's very popular in the UK though.
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Here's one for the group, how do you pronounce the "a" in "hilarious?"
Hi-Larry-us or
Hi-lairy-us
-lairy, by default, because the sound you are using in "Larry" does not exist for me.
This. You summed it up for the Northeast practically.
I'm from Brooklyn and they are indeed pronounced differently.
I thought I'd throw in that this pronounciation also extends over the border and into the English spoken in Quebec, but not to other varieties of Canadian English.
To all the people that pronounce it the same, would saying the sentence "I want to marry merry Mary" entail saying the same thing three times in a row?
"I want to Mary Mary Mary"...?
Yes. This is most of the country, by the way.
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