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Vowels MARRY, MERRY, MARY  
  
922   11:11 صباحاً   date: 2024-03-23
Author : Erik R. Thomas
Book or Source : A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
Page and Part : 316-17


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Vowels MARRY, MERRY, MARY

These classes were once kept distinct by most Southerners, with qualities of [æ], [ε], and [ei~e], respectively. Younger Southerners have shown a wholesale trend toward merging all three into the SQUARE class. Merger of MARY with MERRY has proceeded faster than merger of MARRY with the other two classes.