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WCT: Aug 10-14, 2009
Watched Pot:
Marigold's nickname (or Faye's suggestions for it) have sort of been giving me a headache. 'Round these parts, "Marigold" is pronounced with the first syllable identical to the first syllable of "marinate". Using this pronunciation, "Mar Mar" and "Mar Bear" don't exactly roll of the tongue. Due to regional differences in the distinction (or lack thereof) between the pronunciations of Mary, marry, and merry, I'm thinking that in New England maybe the first syllable of "Marigold" rhymes with "bear", making Faye's suggestions much more palatable. But even then, Faye is from Georgia, so maybe that accent is coming into play. On the other hand, she's made efforts in the past to hide her southern accent, so it could still be the New England influence........but it still comes out sometimes when she's been drinking, as she is now.....
Whatever. This over-analysis has been brought to you by Watched Pot: I Will Never Boil.
Random832:
--- Quote from: Watched Pot on 13 Aug 2009, 14:45 ---'Round these parts, "Marigold" is pronounced with the first syllable identical to the first syllable of "marinate". Using this pronunciation, "Mar Mar" and "Mar Bear" don't exactly roll of the tongue. Due to regional differences in the distinction (or lack thereof) between the pronunciations of Mary, marry, and merry, I'm thinking that in New England maybe the first syllable of "Marigold" rhymes with "bear"
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'Round these parts, the first syllable of "marinate" does, in fact, rhyme with "bear", so you're going to have to explain in more detail.
In particular, which one of the mary/marry/merry vowels [which I know about at least academically] do you envision Marigold (and "marinate") to contain, and which do you suppose "bear" has?
LTK:
Isn't Marigold just pronounced like Mary (with a shorter A) and Gold put together?
Watched Pot:
--- Quote from: Random832 on 13 Aug 2009, 15:16 ---'Round these parts, the first syllable of "marinate" does, in fact, rhyme with "bear", so you're going to have to explain in more detail.
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Hmmm....in retrospect that should have been obvious. I'm not much of a linguist, but I'll do my best to explain--I even found a sound file to help! Where I'm from (near Allentown, PA) Mary and merry are pronounced almost identically, and in these two words Mar/mer would in fact rhyme with 'bear'. Marry is pronounced differently, and this is the "mar" used in Marigold (and marinate). Maybe I should just go to the sound file:
http://www.alt-usage-english.org/mmm_rf.wav
The speaker says "Mary, dear, make me merry. Say you'll marry me," using the pronunciations to which I am most accustomed. I would say "Marigold" using the 'mar' sound the way it is pronounced in 'marry' in that sound clip--it doesn't rhyme with 'bear', and actually makes it a bit awkward to say "Mar Bear" or "Mar Mar".
H0b0K!n9:
--- Quote from: LTK on 13 Aug 2009, 15:54 ---Isn't Marigold just pronounced like Mary (with a shorter A) and Gold put together?
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That's how I pronounce it. I figured that was the only way to say it.....apparently I was mistaken....
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