Becomes Meyh-uh-ree, where … I guess the first two vowels roll or blend? Or is there just an extra syllable in there?
This makes me think of how I would lazily/casually say mayonnaise: Meyh-uh-nayz.
If I wanted to convey being more … proper, intentional, or perhaps demeaning, I would say: Meyh-oh-nayz.
ˈmæɹi
Is basically Mehr-ee, as I say all of these.
ˈmɛɹi
To me, this also sounds like two syllables, Meyh-uh-ree, though I can at least tell that pitch wise, it is in between the other two.
So, to my ear, if you were to say airy or very, I’d basically be hearing you add in an additional ‘uh’ syllable in the middle of the words, along with the pitch differences.
So I’ve been talking to myself for a while out loud now…
I agree with the ‘uh’ insertion. The word seems as if someone added a neural sound to stretch the vowel without adding another syllable though.
As for marry and merry I definitely hear a vowel color change. Merry is ‘brighter’ and I hear a definite ‘ɛ’ as in bed; and marry/Mary a neutral ʌ or ə; the vowel in Mary sounds longer, as if prolonged by inserting an ‘uh’ to enunciate (maybe over-) clearly.
Oh and in response to the rhymes. To my ear weary does not rhyme with the rest of your examples but weary does rhyme with teary. Berry only rhymes with ferry, Larry, and Harry. And Fairy rhymes with hairy but not the others.
ˈmeəɹi, ˈmæɹi, and ˈmɛɹi as in Mary, Marry, and merry. Longish a, short a, short e
Edit. O wait, you’re the same dude I responded to above. Nvm.
Edit2.
Mary rhymes with airy,
Marry rhymes with carry,
Merry rhymes with very.
Woop, sorry about double posting, but I’ll have to look up those IPA symbols… because again lol:
Mary Marry Merry?
Airy Carry Very?
Berry Weary Fairy Ferry Nary Hairy Larry?
… these are all the same, all perfect rhymes to me.
Ok… so, at an IPA chart…
https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-chart-with-sounds/
ˈmeəɹi
Becomes Meyh-uh-ree, where … I guess the first two vowels roll or blend? Or is there just an extra syllable in there?
This makes me think of how I would lazily/casually say mayonnaise: Meyh-uh-nayz.
If I wanted to convey being more … proper, intentional, or perhaps demeaning, I would say: Meyh-oh-nayz.
ˈmæɹi
Is basically Mehr-ee, as I say all of these.
ˈmɛɹi
To me, this also sounds like two syllables, Meyh-uh-ree, though I can at least tell that pitch wise, it is in between the other two.
So, to my ear, if you were to say airy or very, I’d basically be hearing you add in an additional ‘uh’ syllable in the middle of the words, along with the pitch differences.
So I’ve been talking to myself for a while out loud now…
I agree with the ‘uh’ insertion. The word seems as if someone added a neural sound to stretch the vowel without adding another syllable though.
As for marry and merry I definitely hear a vowel color change. Merry is ‘brighter’ and I hear a definite ‘ɛ’ as in bed; and marry/Mary a neutral ʌ or ə; the vowel in Mary sounds longer, as if prolonged by inserting an ‘uh’ to enunciate (maybe over-) clearly.
Oh and in response to the rhymes. To my ear weary does not rhyme with the rest of your examples but weary does rhyme with teary. Berry only rhymes with ferry, Larry, and Harry. And Fairy rhymes with hairy but not the others.