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

I'm Yorkshire and homophones in my accent are definitely not the same as in standard English pronunciation or RP or BBC English or whatever we're supposed to call it.

My accent has mellowed from 15 years living in the South East, but for me, pore, pour and poor are different. Pore like paw, pour like poh-er, and poor like pooh-er. I probably now sound close to paw for all of them.

Also, people misspelling drawer as draw used to confuse me as I say it more like drow-er.

Bury, I used to definitely say as burry. I think I say berry now. It's hard to know, because when I'm thinking about it I can't be sure how I'd pronounce things when speaking naturally.

(All these differences are kind of subtle, not as distinct as my spellings would suggest.)

By the way, bury and berry are homophones in Ireland too!

That's for SomeOtherFuckers' uni mates!

And yet I am from Lancashire and would say that they are homophones. Guess depends which part of the county you are from - everyone I know pronounces Bury as berry.

Berry and berry - yes, homophones in Yorkshire. Not in Lancashire though - it's Burry and berry.
Born and bred in Leeds, moved to Lancs in my early 20s, lived there 18 years.

Lancastrian speaker so Burry for me but I'm from a strong Lancs area...

I'm a north westerner and they are homophones to me. I've visited a little village Sussex called Bury that was pronounced as in Burry.

I live in Bury. I call it Berry.

I'm from near Bury, worked there for many years and say berry

I moved to Yorkshire from down South a few years ago, and was once corrected when I pronounced Bury as 'berry'.

West Yorkshire-homophones for me.

I'm from Wakefield and yes bury and berry sound exactly the same to me so I would say they are homophones.

I too live in Bury and pronounce in Berry. I think you are right there are better examples, place names can have very unique pronunciations.I give you Leominster and the vale of Belvoir!!!!

Berry (fruit) and Bury (as in to put in the ground and cover) are homophones.
Northern too.

I thought homophonia was banned on MN guidelines...

being a Bury [greater manchester] girl born and bred i pronounce it Berry but most others prononce it Burry

My dh is York born and bred and he pronounces bury, berry and Bury exactly the same.

Exactly the same to me.

This has been a small bone of contention with me and dh. The place name is burry (agreed) berry is berry (agreed) but he says burry for bury and I say berry. (Though over the years I have started using a hybrid of the two)

I'm in West Yorkshire (a not very nice part!) and they sound the same to me in any context.

@Systamex I'm glad you said they are homophones in Ireland too as I have been chanting them here in my head. That music festival that's on this weekend? Glastonberry here.

Live it in bury and it's said berry here!

depends on your accent and how strong it is though helly i say Berry but of people i went to school with [the large catholic comprehensive in the town] said Burry but the we also had a lot of Clurs and Jurns [clares and janes]

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

Exactly the same way I'd say them. As would nearly every Scottish person.