[PW] Re: Merry Christmas

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting John Henderson <jhenderson at ithaca.edu>:

> The last discussion I remember about merry had to do with regional
> dialects. Depending on where you live, the following three words are
> either homonyms or not: merry, Mary, marry. They all sound alike to me.

John, two sure ways to know that you are in the South are 1) that none 
of the above are homonyms and 2) in restaurants the black pepper will 
actually come out of the shaker.

John Dyson