From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Friday, May 16, 2014 6:46:31 PM UTC-6, Dan Goodman wrote:   
   > My native dialect is Hudson Valley.     
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   > If you're one of the Brits to whom "polari" and "parlari" sound exactly    
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   > the same, you'll likely to have trouble telling when I pronounce an r at    
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   > the end of a syllable.   
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   > Unlike some Americans and Canadians, I pronounce "Don" and "Dawn"    
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   > differently.  Also "Aaron" and "Erin."   
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   > I pronounce "Mary," "marry," and "merry" differently.  Some Americans    
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   > pronounce two of these the same, others all three the same.   
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   > I pronounce "horse" and "hoarse" differently.   
      
   OTOH, on paper you sound just exactly like someone who pronounces "horse" and   
   "hoarse" identically.  On paper even when you type them instead of someone   
   else, Mary, marry, and merry, are distinguishable, not by your ear or   
   pronunciation but by how they    
   are spelled.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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