@privatebanker
@snowball There’s a restaurant by that name in Somerset Ma by the Taunton River. Tawtin Riva.
It’s actually Magoni’s but very close! The older set love the early bird specials there! I much prefer Marchettis in Cranston!
I once saw a tongue-in-cheek sign on the popcorn machine at a movie theater in Cambridge, Mass, that read, “Hot budded puppcon,” obviously mocking the local accent.
Based upon some signs I’ve seen over time with bad spelling and/or grammar, I would not be convinced that it was tongue-in-cheek. 
Skimming this thread reminds me of a story told by Charles Kuralt in one of his books about people and places in off-the-beaten-path America.
He arrived at the Dairy Queen in a small town in Central Texas. The ‘City Limits’ sign read “Mexia”. M-E-X-I-A.
After placing his order with the young woman working the counter, he asked, “Could you please pronounce the name of this place?” “Oh, that’s easy,” she said. “Day-ree Kween!”
(For the record, it’s pronounced Mu-hay-yuh.)
^One of my favorite Texas jokes. 
I’m fairly certain that this joke has been around a lot longer than “On the Road” and that any attribution to Charles Kuralt is as apocryphal as the alleged Johnny Carson-Zsa Zsa Gabor conversation about her cat.
^^Me, too, MainLonghorn! Lots of color there…I had a crotchety old neighbor who loved to take summer trips up to Kol-uh-ray-duh.
skieurope, all I know is I read it in his book, ‘On The Road With Charles Kuralt’. If you’ve ever been to Mexia, Texas, it’s totally believable~
cherry and merry rhyme with ferry
Mary rhymes with dairy
ferry rhymes with very
@MAandMEmom Isn’t there a marchettis in Seekonk across the street from Pawtucket cc on 152?
Also yes it is magonis. Very funny. There or the Venus for my grandparents. Maybe Eileen darlings if it was lunch back in the old days. lol.
I am of those who think that - Merry rhymes with cherry (or Katy Perry), Mary rhymes with dairy (or fairy), and Marry rhymes with carry (or Harry)
@privatebanker I think you are thinking of Spumoni’s but that’s closer to the Attleboro line. The West Valley Inn in Warwick closed. And my son works at the Venus! Well until he left for cawledge last week:).
Or really going back in time to Tweet Balzano’s in Bristol!
re post # 208 et al. And they all rhyme with each other!
@wis75 - Perhaps play them on google to hear the pronunciation of these words. CHEHree (like berry) vs. Mary (like fairy, dairy, hairy)
All those words rhyme when I say them.
My son in Lebanon is going to work on a project to make videos to explain pronunciation of English words. An example would be the difference between “except” and “accept.” I realized I say them the same!
But- WHOSE pronunciation? Some words just don’t sound right the way some pronounce them. The English language is full of so many different spellings for the same sounds (as well as different sounds for the same spellings). I run into a problem with this site because I see the spellings such as in the post above. Of course those two words are different but I get muddled trying to say them- realizing the subtle differences I may/may not say.
Life is too short to worry about subtle differences. The huge differences such as adding distinct sounds or skipping/adding syllables-such as mayonnaise, Boston r’s are noticed.
The Massachusetts Highway Authority posted a sign over the roads:
Use Yah Blinkah!
(something most Mass. drivers don’t do.)
“Perhaps play them on google to hear the pronunciation of these words. CHEHree (like berry) vs. Mary (like fairy, dairy, hairy)”
Under a midwestern prounouciation ( the one used by most newscasters) ALL these words sound EXACTLY the same and rhyme. You can’t just compare one word with another. In order to describe the word you can only enphasize sylables and do what you did with cherry. No point in comparing it to berry vs fairy because in midwestern ( and other regional pronounciations) berry rhymes with fairy, dairy and hairy.
This is all scary.