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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Are you from Philadelphia, Boston, NY, or Providence?
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Well, I'm from that same megalopolis, anyway.
<--- See there. :-)
BTW, while there are some accents around NJ, most of what the wider pop culture thinks of as a "Joisey accent" doesn't exist, and is really a NY accent.
I, and the majority of native English speakers I know who were raised in the state, speak with what is very close to that "newscaster" neutral American accent.
Now that I think about it, I think that Wiki article is probably right in that "Merry" and "Mary" are said the same more often that "Marry." I've been asking around the office, and I think they are said the same around here moer often than I thought. Perhaps I've just been imposing my own mental distinction on them. Funny, when pronunciations are close, it's sometime hard to tell whether they are being said the same or not. An auditory illusion of some sort?
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