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Different English dialects have caused a phenomenon known to linguists as the Mary–marry–merry merger , in which the vowels of the three words have become so similar that they now sound the same.

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Different English dialects have caused a phenomenon known to linguists as the “Mary–marry–merry merger”, in which the vowels of the three words have become so similar that they now sound the same.

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