"How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?"

Pro-tip in case you're unsure:

"Mary" is pronounced "Mary".
"Merry" is pronounced "merry".
"Marry" is pronounced "marry".

You're welcome.

Mary rhymes with fairy.
Merry rhymes with berry.
Marry rhymes with carry.
- Maybe this is a whoosh on my part, but for people who pronounce all the Mary’s the same, they tend to pronounce all of those words to rhyme as well.

I’m from the green zone but it should be blue honestly. Where even is the blue on this map?

You can't see it because this is a photo from a book that was released back in like 2013 with a ton of various images that more better utilized the colors.
Example:

OP's image must have been stolen and reuploaded again and again and again to get us where we are today.
- Not just that, there is a neat quiz that tries to predict where you are from, based on how you pronounce various words!
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html
  (I see that it is now behind a paywall... 😞)
There's a tiny community in Wisconsin that has the Delco accent. It's there.
Probably a city that is too hard to make out with so few pixels. I would assume Boston, because it would be Boston.
Or maybe they included it because some areas have marry pronounced differently, but forgot to include one for Mary being pronounced differently.
Why is blue in the key when there's no blue on the map?

It drove me crazy when I first moved out of New Jersey and heard so many people "mispronouncing" vowels like this. See also "pen" pronounced as "pin", "Laura" and "Lara" being pronounced the same, etc. The "e" to "i" vowel shift in particular has become extremely prominent throughout much of the US.

How the hell do you pronounce pin different from pen
- It scares me to learn someone pronounces them the same...
Going to school in NJ, I had a teacher whose first name was "Dawn" and she hated it. I didn't understand, I thought it was a pretty name.
But then I grew up, left the state, and wondered why everyone referred to the morning as "don." That's when it all clicked (or, you could say, it dawned on me.) Other states don't pronounce the "aw" part, making "Dawn" and "Don" sound the same. In New Jersey, they are distinct. Now I see why having that name could be upsetting.
- That one, especially, has also driven me crazy. That poor woman.

TIL that the greatest state in the union knows how to correctly pronounce three distinctly different words...

All three are different. I grew up in Philly and South Jersey

Can you explain ... how?
With IPA or 'sounds like' analogies?
I am genuinely baffled here, PNW accent, they're all the same.
I would pronounce all of these the same.
First syllable same as 'mare', a mature female horse.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/mare
(US pronounciation)
Although I'd say it faster and with less obvious of a 'y' sound.
Second syllable would just be... E, like the letter E, as in whee! or bee or see or sea or flee or flea.
Mehr-ee.
What are you guys doing, how do you modify this to come up with two or three distinct pronunciations for the different words?
Different vowel sounds?
???
- ˈmeəɹi, ˈmæɹi, and ˈmɛɹi as in Mary, Marry, and merry. Longish a, short a, short e
  Edit. O wait, you're the same dude I responded to above. Nvm.
  Edit2.
  Mary rhymes with airy,
  Marry rhymes with carry,
  Merry rhymes with very.
- This is the Wikipedia entry for Philadelphia English and it's a long read.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/#Mary%E2%80%93marry%E2%80%93merry_merger
Grew up in Northern PA and Jersey here, and same, all 3 are pronounced differently.

As someone from a red area, how tf are these pronounced differently?

Mary Merry Marry

Can anyone from Philly or Jersey or Mass. actually explain this with IPA or something?

The rest of us are genuinely baffled as to how ya'll are doing this.

Don't make me post the Pam 'they're the same' meme.

Ok so not native speaker but lived in Rhode Island for a long while. Here's what I hear:
ˈmeəɹi, ˈmæɹi, and ˈmɛɹi as in Mary, Marry, and merry. Longish a, short a, short e.
I'm from NJ and these are all different sounds to me. This short shows the difference: https://youtube.com/shorts/S3EaMZUXQYs
Mary–marry–merry merger
~~Geoff Lindsey on YouTube might have a video on the topic. He's great at explaining phonetics of modern English.~~ Lindsey mentions the merger here, but only very briefly.

His name is...

I think we can all agree that Ohio sucks. Pic unrelated.

Can confirm as someone from Massachusetts I pronounce all three differently

Unpopular opinion 1: the us should invite some Brits and learn to speak regular English again.

Unpopular opinion 2: the us should split up and adopt their local version of English as their official language.

the us should invite some Brits and learn to speak regular English again.
Every state has to pick a different British dialect though
- Can't wait for Black Country Texas. Going to be an insane sound with that southern drawl lol
You think English in the UK hasn't evolved in the last few hundred years?
- Not to mention that despite the impact of TV and radio, UK accents are wildly variant and it's pretty much a guarantee that there'll be corners that don't make distinctions between at least two of these words.
  There's no such thing as "regular English" in the UK; the Thames Estuary accent is prescriptivism, not regularity.
- Sure it did, I'm saying it remained regular.
The US has one of the oldest living dialects of English. Linguists argue whether Appalachian English is a mostly preserved dialect of 16th century Elizabethan English or an unusually conservative dialect of 18th century Colonial English.
Y'ont folks ta git back ta talkin right have em talk hillbilly.
US English is , in some cases, more conservative than British English. A lot of words in the us were used by those from the UK that came. But later fell out of fashion in the UK
- Even more unpopular opinion: British royals should hire Americans to relearn those unfashionable words lol

Why does one state reject homonyms?