Re: Pinyin question - mary, merry, marry

Dylan Sung wrote:
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> "Geoff Waters" <grw888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:UufGe.94$4F5.54@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Lee Sau Dan wrote:
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> >> Do you pronounce "where" and "ware" differently?
> >>
>
> If I weren't lazy with the h, I would say hwair.

Only if you lived within a very limited Anglophone area. The distinction
is just about gone everywhere.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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