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jimmay@csuchico.edu (Jim May) writes:

>Will someone please cut this discussion of the Mary,merry,marry 
>pronunciation off before it takes over sci.lang like it did a few months 
>ago.  We went for a long period as if English were the only language in 
>the world.  The arguments were exhausted then, ad nauseam.

It may be boring, but let's at least admit that the discussion has been
linguistic in nature.  Regional isoglosses, vowel shifts, etc.:  It's all
been discussed before here, to be sure.  It's relevant, though.

Maybe it's time for all linguists to thank their lucky stars that at
least it's not a spillover from a usage debate in alt.usage.english,
or a cultural ditty from a soc-hierarchy group :-).

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