Beh-ril, burr'uhl, and burl
Barnhart
barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM
Mon Jul 24 20:02:46 UTC 2006
Merry, marry, and Mary sound alike to me.
Beryl and barrel sound the same to me; but, burl and burrell are distinct
from the first two. I'm not sure if I have a distinction between burl and
burrell.
Regards,
David
barnhart at highlands.com
American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Monday, July 24, 2006
at 3:09 PM -0500 wrote:
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>Poster: "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Beh-ril, burr'uhl, and burl
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>If you're just asking about "Beryl", it isn't another "merry, Mary,
>marry",
>insofar as the 3M combo refers to words that are all distinct in some
>dialects but fall together in various combinations in others.
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>Me, I distinguish them all, as well as
> - Beryl , with the same vowel as "merry"
> - barrel, like "marry"
> - Burl
> - Burrell (I think: distinct in my mind from "Burl", but my speech
>recognition software isn't treating them as different and on playback I'm
>not sure my production is either)
>
>-- Mark
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