Yeah, I wish English was a little more standardized, lol. In my dialect
Mary and
Merry are the same, and it makes me inordinately unhappy. I try to make the difference when I talk, but it sounds pretentious. And I guess it is.
People also often don't differentiate between E and I here.
Pen and Pin sound the same. My name's
Emma and everyone calls me
Imma.
I differentiate.