<p>There may technically be pronounciation differences in some names, but they are subtle enough to go unnoticed by many of us. Carrie Kerry would sound the same to me.</p>
<p>Thanks Wis75! I’ve been trying for several days to figure out this pronunciation thing. I know someone with the last name of Carey and she pronounces it the same way I say Carrie which is the same way I say Kerry which all rhymes with fairy. Maybe it is a Illinois/Wisconsin thing.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I think it is an Illinois/Wisconsin thing. I grew up in northern Illinois (and have the accent to prove it) and Carrie/Carey/Kerry are all the same to me.</p>
<p>That’s why, after college in Chicago, I moved back east. ;)</p>
<p>I’m from the mid-Atlantic and pronounce “Carrie” with an “a” sound similar to the “a” in apple. Kerry rhymes with fairy. Very different. My Texas-based family makes fun of me because they say the more midwestern flat a where it sounds the same. For example, I say “Sharon” with the same apple “a” sound and they say share-in.</p>
<p>Somewhat off-topic: my husband pronounces “pin” and “pen” exactly the same. Can’t figure that one out.</p>
<p>Everyone in my family says “pin” and “pen” exactly the same. All lifelong southerners.</p>
<p>which is why southerners often call it an “ink pin”.</p>
<p>I remember Randy Newman</p>