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Maria D|1355786945|3333799 said:How about merry, marry and Mary? Not homonyms to me!
OK - to me... "merry" has a shorter "eh" sound (duration-wise) than "marry" and ""Mary," which sound the same to me. Of course this difference would not show up if you try to write these words phonetically, so I guess it exists only in my mind!

One of my friends, a pretty high-ranking executive, pronounces "gonna," as in "going to," as "gunna." Not "goanna", but "gunna," kinda like a what a southern version of "gunner" might sound like. Since a lot of what she addresses is what we as an organization are going to do, she "gunna"'s all the time. Drives me batty... it's all I can do to not jump in and correct her.

It's much easier to fixate on something like this than bigger issues.