<p>Another regional term is “pick 'em up truck” (pickup truck).</p>
<p>Just for you, MissBee! [Mary</a>, marry, merry = not the same! - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>MizzBee, how do you pronounce “hairy?” I grew up saying Mary the same way. Of course, if you pronounce hairy to rhyme with Harry then I guess this doesn’t help.</p>
<p>Here’s how I would explain Mary and marry.</p>
<p>Mary sounds like mare - ee (mare/hare/scare)</p>
<p>Marry sounds like Larry - a as in apple</p>
<p>I think if you tend toward the “nasal,” this might not help.</p>
<p>^Still trying to figure out weather’s name. Ann? Owen, Aaron?</p>
<p>^My vignette was from a girls’ school, and the reason I was offended at her suggestion of Ian was because it’s a boy’s name. (I was 10 and it was a long time ago). So, the first. :)</p>
<p>Whenever we cook on the grill, we’re having a “cookout” not a barbecue.</p>
<p>Thank you all!</p>
<p>Of course, now I am laughing because hairy rhymes with Larry- a long a.</p>
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Where I grew up in southern Virginia, we just called it a “drink.” That was the only kind of drink you could get.</p>
<p>As for “Mary, marry, and merry,” I agree that we pronounced them all the same. However, people with really strong country accents would pronounce “Mary” differently–more like MAY-ree.</p>
<p>I don’t know why, but as soon as I open my mouth, people ask me if I was from NY, not NJ. I don’t know if it is the speed of my speech or accent. Of course, I am very Asian looking. My kids do not have an accent. They speak like their dad.</p>
<p>Never thought about this before, but learning spelling must be a lot tougher when all those differently spelled word parts sound the same to you.</p>
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<p>Around here, they’re called ‘outfits.’ Really.</p>
<p>Learning to speak English is difficult because the pronunciation does not follow any rules and there are all the regional accents. As a foreigner, I can not pronounce the s at the beginning of words like special, it sounds like especial</p>
<p>LINYMOM–I’m laughing because those all sound the same here, Mary, Mare, Larry, Hairy, etc. .</p>
<p>weatherga-I was talking to a friend that moved from a northern state to a southern state and how her child was having HUGE issues in spelling because what he heard was not what the word was. One example was the word was “door” but it sounded like “doe” to him so he wrote doe. Sugar was another hard one because the teacher dropped the “r” sound so it sounded like suga .</p>
<p>During administration of an IQ test of one of my children at age 6, for entry into Canadian public school gifted program, regional dialect played a role. The American-born psychologist took notes on the list of cities where our family had lived during their toddler/preschool years, as part of the intake. </p>
<p>When he tested for a word analogy with the word “pan” and “metal”, and the child looked blank, the psychologist repeated and re-accented the word “pan” because we’d lived near Chicago. Immediate correct reply. Later he told me, "I thought, based on his other answers, that he knew that concept. He just needed to hear the word “paaaan” they way it’s said in Chicago.</p>
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<p>Now that I think about it, not only do they rhyme, but they sound almost identical. SLIGHT difference in stress.</p>
<p>In Oregon, the state is pronounced OR-ih-guhn not OR-ih-gahn.
:Mary, marry & merry sound the same
:Honking is considered rude unless it’s an emergency
:Someone else pumps your gas – lovely when it’s raining (70 percent of the time) or cold
and snowy
:One cannot buy alcohol (with the exception of beer & wine) in the grocery stores.
We go to a liquor store – which closes at 7 p.m. and on Sundays.
:The car that arrived first at a 4-way stop has the right of way. If two cars arrive at the
same time, it’s the car on the right. But most people will wave each other on.
:We say roundabout for circle traffic diversions
:As SaintFan pointed out there are about 35 different ways to say it’s going to rain.
:Our flagship university of U of O. Washington State’s is UW.
:People say I-5
:Nanaimo bars are well known! I even buy the vanilla custard powder when I’m in
Canada.</p>
<p>I like the nasally description - for me marry has a bit more nasal on the ‘a’ and it blend into the ‘rr’ more. The ‘a’ sound is also held a bit longer - not as clean and crisp a pronunciation as Mary</p>
<p>A big pickup would be a ‘rig’ Now and then rig will also be used for an SUV if it is used to tow tailers, boats (fishing not ski) or hunt, etc. but only amongst the menfolk. My DH calls any truck or SUV used for fishing, hunting, towing or hauling a ‘rig’.</p>
<p>Otherwise it’s just a truck.</p>
<p>The not a rig if you are towing a jetski or skiboat may just be a particular prejudice of my DH ;)</p>
<p>^ Yes-- rigs are important here in the country!
We live in a small town not far from Portland, but the locals say crick rather than creek. Any car can be a rig if it tows something (including my minivan)
Most people say soda
And our groceries come in a bag (that you’re encouraged to bring yourself)
We go to the coast, not the beach.</p>
<p>My NJ college roommate always had a good time with our Kentucky friend. Kentucky friend would always ask a group of us if “Y’all going to …tonight?” NJ roommate would always respond, I don’t know if we all are going, but I am.</p>