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

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

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

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

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

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".

Noodie - are you both from Yorkshire though?

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!!!

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

I'm W Y btw

Not homophones to me!

And I'm at uni in Lancaster

Lochan do you say York-shire?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Not homophones in NEScotland either!

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