Mary, merry, and marry are all pronounced differently in large cities in the northeast, in San Francisco, and in the South. The three sounds have merged into one in the Midwest, in much of New England, and in the West.
The wide roundabouts have 4 or more lanes in each direction, and trying to make your way from the inside to the outside is not fun. It usually requires a couple of complete orbits before you can get to your exit.
I despised those figure-eight style back-to-back roundabouts when I lived in England in the 1980s. I can only imagine Tommy Binks’s frustration at having to navigate through an entire cluster of them, several times daily. His hatred of Wendlefield is completely understandable and justified!
In addition to his intuitive ability to sense the presence of valuable items, Romesh is good at assuming that people trying to jimmy their way into a store are thieves, based on personal experience.
Mary, merry, and marry are all pronounced differently in large cities in the northeast, in San Francisco, and in the South. The three sounds have merged into one in the Midwest, in much of New England, and in the West.