One my parents do is pronounce oil as “all”, gets on my nerves every time. lol
Berry, Barry, Bury - Mary, Marry, Merry - these all have different sounds (to me)
What drive me nuts is how some people mispronounce FebRUary as FebYew-ary
A couple of days ago, I heard a newscaster pronounce mirror as murr (rhymes with purr) - hmmm, that’s new!
momo… does it bother you when we who do not change the sounds (and can’t fathom any differences) say those words? Wonder which ones sound “correct” to you when we speak. Of course there is no audio here so we will never know.
Agree on missing the r in that month. Other mispronunciations with missing needed sounds as well.
My son-in-law, who was born and raised in the Midwest can’t hear the difference between merry and marry. The rest of us, who are either from the East coast or raised by people from the East coast say it differently or can hear the difference even if they don’t say it that way.
@wis75 no, it doesn’t bother me - except for FebYuary, and now, murr (mirror)
Coming back to this late since this thread just popped up again…
When I say them (former midwesterner, now Californian, married to an Aussie), all of these words rhyme with each other.
But since I’m married to an Aussie I’ve analyzed it a bit and tried to say them differently (and can do it if I really try). For “merry” you don’t open your mouth as much. Like an ‘eh’ sound. For “Mary” you think of a long ‘a’. And for ‘marry’ think of ‘ah’ or elongate the vowel while you are doing it, not quite an ‘ah’ but a longer vowel.
Growing up in northern Michigan, I used to fish in the creek, pronounced crick. And in winter we got a lot of snow on our roof, rhymes with hoof. Having lived in many different places, I now say creek, pronounced creak, and roof, rhymes with spoof.