I'd think that you might have hit the bottle though.
English, the Language.
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In which case, at least following American rules, they shouldn't sound anything like either of us pronounce them. "Marry" should have an "ahr" sound (bar, scar, etc)...like a pirate.
EDIT: or, ya know, you can get pissy.
It's not actually long vowel, short vowel if I'm not mistaken. It's closer to tense a, lax a (which is much harder to pick out). For me, mad, sad, glad don't all rhyme because of the lax a/tense a distinction.
I have no idea what that means. All those words rhyme to me!
Sometimes I'm glad I live in the Midwest. I feel like it's the least complicated of all the dialects.
I do.
Jam as in Jam session if that's distinct at all. Or just click the link since he does show the differences well.
Yeah, I get what you're saying, but we don't pronounce things that way in the Midwest. We say "ah" for all of those words, unless we are intentionally mocking someone else's accent.
While I do the same thing, that's because I've trained myself that way. There's definitely still a bit of two syllables in Anne for me before the word kicks in. Almost like I start speaking while my mouth is in the I position but I move it as quick as possible to the A.
The way the A is pronounced it's very long. Same with the long O. Phone, for example, sounds closer to Phowen. It's just the quirks of language.
The thing to keep in mind is language is changing all the time and becoming more different all the time. There are linguists scrambling to study the Seattle accent, which people used to think was just a California accent. In England, there are many different accents in London alone. The general rule is, the closer to the source, the more diverse it'll be. In the United States and in Australia, there were only a few different accents at landing (depending on which groups from England as well as which other immigrant groups arrived), but they've all started diversifying.
The thing to keep in mind is language is changing all the time and becoming more different all the time. There are linguists scrambling to study the Seattle accent, which people used to think was just a California accent. In England, there are many different accents in London alone. The general rule is, the closer to the source, the more diverse it'll be. In the United States and in Australia, there were only a few different accents at landing (depending on which groups from England as well as which other immigrant groups arrived), but they've all started diversifying.
The E at the end of Anne makes me want to say it like Annie. When Anne is spelled just An or Ann it is easy to just pronounce it with one syllable.
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