How do you pronounce Bury in Lancashire ?

[LadyEloise]

I don't live in the the UK. How do your pronounce the name of the town Bury please ?
Is it like to bury (a corpse) ?

People from Bolton/Bury say burry, Mancunians and salfordians say Berry

If you don't have an accent it's 'berry'. But if you have a Bury/Lancs accent you'd pronounce it as 'burry'. But you'd also pronounce Bury St Edmonds and 'Burry st Edmonds' and you'd 'burry' someone when they died.

So assuming you don't have such an accent pronounce it 'berry'. You wouldn't pronounce any other place name using the accent of that place would you? Try to imagine a news reader with an RP accent talking about events in 'Liverpoo-ul'

Man-chess-tooorh

@BarbiesWorld

Aaah but *@BikeRunSki* do you know how to say Linthwaite? 😉

Erm.... probably not! Despite living on the outskirts of that town, I’d say it phonetically.

Slaithwaite was fun for text-to-voice software.

I'm from Scotland and wouldn't imagine it pronounced any different than Burry.

Berry??

I’m Mancunian but have worked in Bury. The people of Bury say Bury to rhyme with slurry. I say Bury to rhyme with berry.

I want to know how to say Slaithwaite and Linthwaite now!
(I would assume Slay-thwayte? lin-thwayte?)

Barry (in Kiwi)

Slath wait with the emphasis on the second syllable and aspirate the w ("hw" sound rather than just "w").

Burry here, from the right side of the pennines ;)

Depends what part of greater manchester you or your parents were/are from if you're local. GM is a huge area with lots of different accents. I would say 'Berri' and most people I know from one side would say it like that. The only people I know who say 'Burrri' are from Boltonish way.
So, both will do.

Also the i sound instead of y. Like an alphablock saying phonic sounds.

Erm... I'm from Yorkshire and I say Burry as well. I didn't realise I was being presumptuous

I'm from Bury, still live here now and pronounce it Berry as does almost everyone I know from here. I'd say only around 10% of locals pronounce it Burry, it depends on how strong your accent is.

Slath wait with the emphasis on the second syllable and aspirate the w ("hw" sound rather than just "w").

I thought it was pronounced more "Slough-ett"?

Slough as in, we plough the fields

The metrolink lady says Berry.

Slaithwaite - Slawit
Linthwaite - Linfit (@BarbiesWorld, this is right I think?)

I live in bolton and have always called it berry but all my friends think its hilarious and that its burry

The locals pronounce it Burry, I believe

I grew up in a village in South Gloucestershire called Almondsbury, a couple miles from a town known as Thornbury. We had a lovely American lady move into our street and she would pronounce Thornbury as Thornberry! Used to make me smile

@mylittleyumyum

I'm from Scotland and wouldn't imagine it pronounced any different than Burry.

Berry??

I'm from Scotland too and I'm reading through the comments wondering how it could be anything but burry. Tried saying Berry several ways and can't make it work! Must be the accent.

Cockburn is Coburn
Appletreewick is Aptrick
Bicester is Buster
Mousehole is more like Marzzle in a Cornish accent
Towcester is Toaster

Sorry, Bister not buster

People who actually come from Bury say it to rhyme with Curry!

Tried saying Berry several ways and can't make it work! Must be the accent
Berry ( the fruit ) and bury ( the dead) sound the same.

Berry. Unless I'm saying "bury market" then it's Burry