[Haskell-cafe] Pronouncing "Curry" and "currying"

Steve Schafer steve at fenestra.com
Fri Oct 8 08:23:05 EDT 2010


On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:56:07 +0200, you wrote:

>Unfortunately, "hurry" is pronounced differently in British and US 
>English [1], so again I was a little bit confused :-).

>[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hurry#Pronunciation

The US sample is correct for someone from California, but it's not the
way a person from New York City would pronounce it (closer to the UK
pronunciation).

I grew up near San Francisco, where "marry," "merry" and "Mary" all
sound the same, as do "our" and "are."

-Steve


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