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Re: Mary, Merry, Mary

Posted by Ronnjee on January 2, 2014, at 14:07:43

In reply to Re: Mary, Merry, Mary » alexandra_k, posted by europerep on December 31, 2013, at 16:45:41

Seems innocuous enough, but the mary/merry/murray thing is one of my earliest memories of learning to not trust teachers. I was a Pennsylvania transplant to southern Virginia schools. During a lesson (third grade, I think) about homonyms (referred to as homophones now), I told the teacher that I didn't think mary and merry were homonyms, and given the speech differences between the two regions, I would be correct about Pennsylvania. The teacher, being too stupid to realize simple facts, dismissed me as being wrong. One of a gazillion incidents in my so-called education.

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