How do you pronounce Mary, Marry, and Merry? (people, Boston, Chicago)

[EddieOlSkool]

Be sure to include what city you are from and to include your pronunciation of each word.

I say them all the same. "Meh-ree". Chicago here.

[Boston Shudra]

I'm from Boston, and I pronounce them all differently.

Mary with the "air" sound in hairy or scary.

Marry with the "a" sound from Harry or happy.

Merry with the "e" sound from Jerry or meth.

[EddieOlSkool]

Originally Posted by iAMtheVVALRUS

I'm from Boston, and I pronounce them all differently.

Mary with the "air" sound in hairy or scary.

Marry with the "a" sound from Harry or happy.

Merry with the "e" sound from Jerry or meth.

hairy and Jerry don't have the same sound????

[nephi215]

People from the coastal Northeast (Philly, NYC, Boston areas) generally pronounce all three differently. People from everywhere else generally pronounce it all three the same or 1 differently than the other two.

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by EddieOlSkool

hairy and Jerry don't have the same sound????

Jerry pronounced like Jelly but with r's.

And hairy pronounced like air, the stuff you breathe.

[jennifat]

They're all pronounced exactly the same way.

[AZLiam]

Originally Posted by EddieOlSkool

hairy and Jerry don't have the same sound????

Or Hairy and Harry? lol

[cacto]

All sound the same.

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by AZLiam

Or Hairy and Harry? lol

I thought you were being sarcastic the first time I saw this, haha!

But, yeah, hairy and Harry are not pronounced the same way...

[Boston Shudra]

So wait.

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"...?