Comments on: Despite White House theme, days numbered for ‘merry’ http://www.nathanbierma.com/archive/14 archive prototype Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:26:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dennis R. Preston http://www.nathanbierma.com/archive/14/comment-page-1#comment-39 Dennis R. Preston Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:01:51 +0000 http://www.nathanbierma.com/?p=14#comment-39 Nathan, Shame on you; how could you have published a piece on "merry" (which I missed in the original) without noting the "merry-marry-Mary" phenomenon, allowing such old standbys as "Everybody at the party was making merry; so Mary got up and went home." Obviously not a joke in some dialects. Best, Dennis Nathan,

Shame on you; how could you have published a piece on “merry” (which I missed in the original) without noting the “merry-marry-Mary” phenomenon, allowing such old standbys as “Everybody at the party was making merry; so Mary got up and went home.” Obviously not a joke in some dialects.

Best,

Dennis

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