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

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

But then, so many things aren't for us, are they?

witch/which
were/where
loch/lock

Where do you stand on the psalm/Sam, palm/Pam debate?

I live nowhere near Bury but had a boyfriend from there many moons ago and he said 'Berry' so I get the homophones thing. However wouldn't use place names as homophones.

For me,

pore = paw
pour = paw
poor = paw

Homophones, the lot. Scottish MIL is openly horrified!

(AIBU to say homophone is my new word! Never heard of it before this thread).

West York's.
Bury rhymes with hurry berry rhymes with ferry.
Definitely not homophones.

Sorry addley, half-read and had this all day today

When you're from South Yorkshire, you gotta own it… 😂 (I'm not actually from Sheffield, I'm from one of its even shitter satellite towns, but nobody's heard of it.)

pore = paw
pour = paw
poor = paw

Are you saying you pronounce poor the same as pour?

(I'll give you pore/pour)

what????

Ofcourse poor, pore, pour all sound the same!

Scottish here!

Bury (the place) is pronounced Buh-rry
Bury (the verb) is pronounced Birry
Berry is pronounced Beh-rry

Ofcourse poor, pore, pour all sound the same!

WTF.

Picture or it didn't happen.

I say pore, pour and poor the same too. London/south east.

Scottish here!

Bury (the place) is pronounced Buh-rry Bury (the verb) is pronounced Birry
Berry is pronounced Beh-rry

Thank FUCK. The voice of sanity.

My world is literally tilting on its axis here. 😢

I'm Scottish and NEVER say birry! . He's me thinking we were all the same.

When I say "naice" I am being slightly ironic (to be honest, I just wanted to get down with the Mumsnet speak) - I come from a generally-accepted-to-be-lovely town (but that I have a few issues with, being on the more bohemian/scruffy/left-wing side of things).

People who haven't heard of homophones must not have primary-aged children - I had to google "split diagraphs" when my children were in reception!

This is why I don't like synthetic phonics!

I poored the tea

I am pore as a church mouse.

I have huge pours on my nose.

See, no difference at all!

butchy - psalm/Sam and palm/Pam are pretty much the the same.
Pore and pour are the same. Poor is not.
One which often divides Scots is seven!

If you pronounced Bury St Edmunds as Burry you'd get a shut load of dodgy looks

And heavy!

How is poor/pore (homophones) the same as psalm/Sam which are completely different!? Confused..

Bury/berry are homophones to me. N Yorks (very close to E Yorks) all my life.

YABU, it's totally a homophone to me!
I'm North Yorkshire born and grew up and say both Berry and Bury as Berry.
DH is West Yorkshire though and adamant it's Burry. So seems it's acceptable as a homophone depending on what part of Yorkshire you grew up in!

Poor
Pour
Pore
Paw

They all rhyme with 4. Or for. Or sore.

Are all the same to me except poor would be a slightly longer oo sound. But it's really subtle, I wouldn't say poo-er.

South Yorkshire born and bred and Bury and Berry are both pronounced berry. Now live in the North East and they are still both pronounced berry.

Poor
Pour
Pore
Paw

They all rhyme with 4. Or for. Or sore.

All those sound the same apart from the top one - poor is more a poo-er sound!