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"How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?" (media.piefed.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You think English in the UK hasn't evolved in the last few hundred years?

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Not to mention that despite the impact of TV and radio, UK accents are wildly variant and it's pretty much a guarantee that there'll be corners that don't make distinctions between at least two of these words.

There's no such thing as "regular English" in the UK; the Thames Estuary accent is prescriptivism, not regularity.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 0 points 3 weeks ago

Sure it did, I'm saying it remained regular.