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

[Hippee]

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

so do southern accents pronounce bury with an 'e' sound?

Yes and yes to being homophones here (SE England).

Another WY native saying not homophones, burry and berry.

This thread just proves that there are variations across even very small areas. Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield are in a triangle about 10 miles apart and there are distinct differences in prononciation and language between the cities and that's just one small area of a huge county.

Yorkshire native. West/North border.

Not homophones. But I don't say "burry" for Bury either.

The differnce is subtle for me.

I live in Lancashire, parents born in Blackburn and near wakefield but then I was raised dahn sarf so my accent is, er, flexible.

Berry is berry. But a particular type of berry would be eg strawbuhrry or strawbrie

I've probably pronounced Bury in many ways but tend towards buhry.

Gardening I may berry or buhry.

[Grin] Glad this got everyone going (love a good regional bun/bap/cob fight!)

It's funny how localised everything can be. Growing up, I hadn't realised that Mischief Night was not a UK wide thing - I think it may be only known of in a 20 mile radius (and has now almost completely disappeared, replaced by Hallowe'en the previous week).

I really like the Bury one - I used to work with a guy from up there and our first convo about it went like this
"if I get the train now [Christmas eve at 6pm] I should just about make it home for Christmas"
"Where are you from actually?"
"Berry."
"Oh, Burry? I know someone from there"
"no you don't, if you say it like that then you must know somebody from Bolton"

I'm Scottish and they definitely aren't homophones in my accent.

Same.

Who in tarnation pronounces bUry the same as bErry???

I live about 10 miles from Bury my dad lived there I say berry.

I'm from Suffolk and say be-ree, my DH (Irish but moved to Yorkshire when 5) burreh, I think

Bury st Edmunds in Suffolk is

Be-ree-sunt-Edmunds (said quickly and lazily)

Love that toomuchtooold

Definitely homophones here. Berry (there was a red berry on the tree) Bury (bury it in the ground, we buried him) Bury (Bury St Edmunds) all homophones, SE England.

Do those of you who say 'birry' or 'burry' say we 'birried' or 'burried' his body instead of burying it then? Accents fascinate me!

Im lancashire and not homophones to me.

As an aside, out of curiosity, those people saying they live in naice parts of yorkshire, what do you consider to be the shit parts?

Who in tarnation pronounces bUry the same as bErry???

Pretty much everyone (what with that being the usual pronounciation).

Pretty much everyone (what with that being the usual pronounciation).

This thread is awash with posters saying they don't.

No, the majority are saying they do.

pore, pour and poor
1 pore as in 'paw'
2 pour as in 'paw'
3 poor as in 'paw' or 'poo-er' (I seem to jump between the two)

Shit parts of Yorkshire:

• Rotherham
• Doncaster
• Barnsley
• basically anywhere in South Yorkshire

(I'm from Sheffield )

Basically, IMO, when they decided to split Yorkshire into four instead of three, they took all the shittiest bits and coagulated them into South Yorkshire.

South Yorks here. I pronounce Bury as Berry. I assume people over t'pennines say Burry 😂

They are homophones. North West here, Bury (town) is pronounced berry, as is (rasp)-berry for example. Bury something in the ground is also berry.

Some people with broad accents pronounce Bury as Burry, but I don't hear it regularly. But then some ppl from Manchester pronounce lorry as 'lurrie' and book and look have long 'oo' sounds.

Love dialect and accents

No, the majority are saying they do.

I didn't say the majority were saying they don't, but plenty don't.

Certainly, in my country, I've never had any native pronounce "bUry" as "bErry". you'd get a kicking

Nice Addley.

There is crap everywhere (including LOTS of Sheffield)

I'm Scottish and confused. Not homophones in any way.

It was a joke… Sheffield is part of South Yorkshire and very definitely has more than its fair share of shit.

Homophones here in N Yorkshire.