Beh-ril, burr'uhl, and burl

[Beverly Flanigan]

Same here.

At 04:02 PM 7/24/2006, you wrote:
>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.
> >
> >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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