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) ?

Agree with others...dependent on where in Lancs or Manc/Greater Manc you are it’s Berry (which is how I’d say it) or Burry which is how lots of other locals would say it.

Bury rhymes with curry. Unless you think you're posh then its berry

I'm from Rochdale. I say berry.

Berry. X

Burry

No idea if this is an urban myth from a company I used to work for or not.

Apparantly 2 colleagues pulled off the A1 at a service station near Wyboston and were arguing if it was pronounced Y-boston or Wibberston.

They'd gone for a burger and when they got to the counter said to the lad serving them "can you settle an argument, how do you pronounce the place where we are".

The lad looked at them and very carefully said "Bur - ger - king"

Bury St Edmunds in a Suffolk accent is Bairy.

Burri. The Y is short.

@PortugeseManoWar

But Bury St Edmunds is pronounced, 'berry', right? Or is that 'Burry' too?

Yep, pronounced Berry

I've just moved to Bury from another part of Greater Manchester. It will always be 'berry' to me. Plenty of people I know who are from Bury don't say 'burry' either.

It's like a cross between burry and berry... "Buh-rry".

Derbyshire born I say berry

Burghee.

Now try proncouncing Bacup, Mytholmroyd and Todmorden. I couldn’t when I first moved up there.

My dad lived there its burry

I can manage Bacup and just call Todmorden tod, but at 46 years old im always sure I say Barnoldswick wrong!

Burry with a gentler uh than I would use in curry

It’s Burreh.

(My grandma came from Billinge, which is pronounced Bill Inj).

Bill Bryson wrote a book about commonly mis-spelt or mispronounced place names.

Slawit and Linfit!
I'm glad I asked

Burry is the local pronunciation for local people
Berry is what the rest of us call it

Buh-ree

I say Berry but DH family from there says Buhreh.

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

That's not always helpful, my Dad pronounces Curry like Kerreh!

Buh-reh

BURRY

Berry.

Honestly not that many have an accent so thick they say "Burry" (rhymes with hurry, or scurry) anymore. I only hear my grandparents say that. A lot of parents nag their kids to "speak proper" so regionalisms like that have faded a lot.