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to think that you can't use bury and berry as homophones in Yorkshire?

158 replies

Hippee · 22/06/2017 23:42

DS2 came home with this in his spellings homework. I know we're in a naice part of Yorkshire, but nevertheless Wink

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KoalaDownUnder · 22/06/2017 23:47

Interesting! How are they pronounced? (They're definitely homophones here, but I'm a long way from Yorkshire)

Penhacked · 22/06/2017 23:49

Yeah, my nan always said 'burry', but somewhere along the way I have adopted 'berry'. It is certainly confusing in a school context though!

NoodieRoodie · 22/06/2017 23:51

I'm sitting here chanting them in my head and they are homophones to me, how do you pronounce them? We're in a naice part of North Yorks and DH and I both agree

Hippee · 22/06/2017 23:53

It's said as it is spelt koala.

I'm not consistent though - I would say "Bury" for the Northern town but "Berry" for "Bury St Edmunds".

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Hippee · 22/06/2017 23:55

Noodie - are you both from Yorkshire though?

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AnnieOH1 · 22/06/2017 23:56

I would also say Bury (as in to burry in a hole) for the Northern town but Berry for Bury St Edmonds, that said I wouldn't say they were homophones personally. I'd be interested to hear from anyone in Bury to know how they pronounce the name?

HappyAxolotl · 22/06/2017 23:58

Berry and bury (put in the ground) are homophones where I'm from. North but not Yorkshire. I have heard the town Bury pronounced as burrie though.

Lochan · 23/06/2017 00:00

I love these types of threads, pronunciations vary so widely. I'm Scottish and they definitely aren't homophones in my accent.

NoodieRoodie · 23/06/2017 00:01

Born in West, uni in east riding, brief stint in France, live in North Yorks, I don't like to stray too far Grin . DH was born to Yorkshire parents but whispers in London but lived up here from being a child

reetgood · 23/06/2017 00:03

I'm in West Yorkshire and just got my Yorkshire other half to sound them out - they work as homophones here.

BlondeB83 · 23/06/2017 00:04

Homophones to me, I'm in Yorkshire (a nice bit).

littlejeopardy · 23/06/2017 00:05

Lancashire here, they are not homophones to my ear. I never considered this before, so do southern accents pronounce bury with an 'e' sound?

SomeOtherFuckers · 23/06/2017 00:06

It's funny because I'm from Yorkshire and pronounce them v differently ... but since going to uni everyone picks up on how I say bury and says I sound bloody Irish!!!

DaleTremont · 23/06/2017 00:06

Homophones to me. I grew up in Lancs, have lived in Yorkshire for 15 years.

SomeOtherFuckers · 23/06/2017 00:06

I'm W Y btw

OvO · 23/06/2017 00:07

Not homophones to me!

SomeOtherFuckers · 23/06/2017 00:07

And I'm at uni in Lancaster

bigtapdancingpimp · 23/06/2017 00:07

Lochan do you say York-shire? Grin

MandateMandy · 23/06/2017 00:09

Bonkers. I say bury as "birry" and berry as "behrry"

abigamarone · 23/06/2017 00:10

I live in Bury, pronounce the town as either Berry or Burry. Mind, I'm not consistent in how I pronounce both 'book' and 'cook' either.

OvO · 23/06/2017 00:12

I say bury to rhyme with hurry and berry to rhyme with merry.

Nettletheelf · 23/06/2017 00:14

The only people who pronounce bury as 'burry' that I've come across are lancastrians!

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LadyLaSnack · 23/06/2017 00:16

I can still picture a worksheet with line drawings of a bunch of unidentifiable berries and a picture of a spade and a mound of earth which I brought home from school that had my whole family scratching heads for the same reason. Bury and berry don't rhyme in Scotland. That was 29 years ago.

thereallochnessmonster · 23/06/2017 00:17

Not homophones in NEScotland either!

Eragonsegg · 23/06/2017 00:20

Near bradford, west yorkshire...not homophones here, burry and berry
Although strangely I've just realised I say berrial for burial so....

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