[Ads-l] Merry-Mary-Marry

[Wilson Gray]

It was Christmas, and everybody was feeling merry.  Till Mary got mad and
left.

"Traditional," so to speak, seasonal pun among black St. Louisans, from at
least the '40's.

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:17 PM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> If folks don’t mind I’m going to be a little bit lazy and ask if someone
> knows a recent reference for the status of (non-)merger of the three words
> in North American dialects. Asking for a project Margaret Winters and I are
> doing.
>
> Geoff
>
> Geoffrey S. Nathan
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> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
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- Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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