Re: curious Minnesota vowels


John Atkinson wrote:
"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote..

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Why wouldn't "Mary" and "wear(ing)" exhibit the _same_ vowel,
whatever
the speaker's dialect?

Well, first of all it just now occurs to me this is the opposite of
the usual phenomenon--usually we're talking about "marry" being
pronounced like "Mary". Here, you say "Mary" is being pronounced
"marry". In that case--any chance that it's *only* "Mary" that's
pronounced this way? It seems to me that in some or all dialects in
England "Mary" is pronounced with /a/, but "hairy" and "scary" aren't.

I've never heard any English speaker from England who doesn't pronounce
"Mary", "scary", and "hairy" as exact rhymes. I'm know people exist who
don't rhyme "Mary" and "hairy"-- the same ones that don't rhyme "scary"
and "hairy" -- but they're rare.

and who, praytell, are these curious non-rhymers?

.

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