… for whom either merry or marr/ merged with Mary, while the other is separate from both.
Light blue spots are speakers who merge merry and marry but distinguish Mary; since this …

… Margaretta’s accent was recognizably Midwestern—the words merry, marry, and Mary …
of practice made me “happy,” I was pleased about it. I felt that I was coming back to myself—this …

… /e/ respectively, become homophonous with Mary; mirror (/i/) … This study concerns TLN in
the marry-merry-Mary classes. … which merry and marry are merged with each other but Mary is …

… coldness of the world in her husband's smiles, and be happy, as with all our hearts we hope
… with Mary Ann, no one cared a button for him... and at this point he thought he had lost Mary …

… make me a "Marie," and nothing else; and that Mother says she knows Father'll never be happy
until he's made me into a stupid little "Mary," … if Mary and Marie were fighting inside of me, …

… " Tony Campolo... and Mary Darling... are like gunpowder … the Spirit" Tony Campolo and
Mary Darling... are two first rate … Tikkun Magazine" I know both Tony and Mary personally and …

… with him; and then poor Mary's sweetheart, Will Penruddock-it's … me at last because I had
some worldly good to offer you; you saw it was what I wanted, and you meant to make me happy…

… came before, to rejoice with Mary in her self-dissolving trances, … makes the reader resist
this notion of a happy end. Sinclair has all too successfully enlisted us in the cause of Mary's …

… in homophony for groups of words such as Mary, merry, and marry, is found throughout …
Therefore, we might expect not to find the Mary-merry-marry merger in their speech at all, or …

… I wish you were sincere in what you say, I do not think you are, but still I believe myself
happy in your good Opinion; you treat me so much in a Style of Compliment, that I really do not …