# Three men freeze to death in a friend's backyard and aren't found for three days

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> In my Great Lakes dialect, so far as I can tell, I pronounce “hearty” and “hardy” the same. ⁢

Yeah, claiming “hearty” and “hardy” are not homophones seems weird for a dictionary. They aren’t homophones everywhere, but they are throughout most of the United States.

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