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Hmmmm, I didn't realize that "sneakers" instead of "tennis shoes" was a north eastern thing.
by bostonvaulter2 13y ago
Hmmmm, I didn't realize that "sneakers" instead of "tennis shoes" was a north eastern thing.
- TillE 13y agoYeah, I genuinely had no idea about that one. I know "trainers" is the British thing, but I thought everyone in the US called them sneakers. That's the term used by zappos.com and rockport.com, for example. "Tennis shoes" is not a category. I'm also slightly terrified that the vast majority of the country cannot distinguish Mary/merry/marry.
- vwinsyee 13y agoI'm having a hard time trying to pronounce one or more of Mary/merry/marry in any different way... how would one do that?
- abrowne 13y agoFor me, from Minnesota, they're all the same: vowel like in "made" [eɪ]. I think the others have vowels like in "bed" [ɛ] and "bad" [æ]. These vowels aren't allowed before r in my dialect.
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- digisth 13y agoNYC native here. Mary - mare-ree Merry - meh-ree Marry - mah-ree