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by Sofia

6/24/2009, 5:56 AM

I pronounce Mary like words merry or marry, just with a different stress. And I write it down like ME-ree. And the pronunciation for Mary on this site is 'MER-ee', so I don't see the problem.

I'm not a native English speaker, but that's how I've always heard it pronounced on TV and real life by both the Brits and the Americans.

Where are you from and how do you pronounce the 'marry-' part in the names mentioned?

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- brydz (guest)

6/24/2009, 6:51 PM

to me the ER sound is the same as in FathER and biggER etc. so if you were to spell Mary the way you write it down I'd spell it totally different to Mary.

- brydz (guest) +1

6/24/2009, 6:47 PM

australia.

marry is exactly that. marry like as in marriage, married, marry.

Mary to me has more of an AIR sound in it rather than an ER sound. just like Sarah. I certainly wouldn't say its said SER-uh

- Sofia

6/25/2009, 2:49 PM

That expalins it:-)

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