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

They all rhyme with 4 for me.

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

Think it depends where in the south. I'm in Surrey/London borders and would say they're homophones here but I think further west possibly not.

They're homophones to a Scouser...both 'berry'

Hampshire here.

All homophones
Bury/berry
Hear/here
Pear/pare/pair
Poor/poor/pore/paw
Stare/stair
For/four/fore
witch/which
There/their/they're

The list goes on! There really isn't any difference in how we say it, it's just the context which tells you which version we're using. I love my Dad's accent - despite having been down South since the '70s his Ayrshire accent prevails and you can really hear the difference between poor and pour, or where and wear, for example.

Bury/berry - homophones.

Psalm/Sam - not homophones (long and short a)

Pour/pore - homophones.

Pore/poor - not homophones.

N Ireland to N Yorks.

Poor - Paw
Pour - Pew-er.
Pore = Pawr
Paw - Paw

Hard to type out, but subtle differences.

(From Yorkshire Dales)

Haha I just pronounced them phonetically and I sounded northern

And 'paw' and 'pore' are so far apart as to make the idea of them being homophones kind of ridiculous - like saying 'so' and 'soap' are homophones.

Paw and pore are the same when I say them

Only to you Broomstick! They're the same word to me!

I don't live too far from Bury (Lancs/Yorks border) and it's pronounced Berry locally. It's just an idiom - there's a place locally called Slaithewaite and locals pronounce that Slaw-wit. Where I live is inbetween Manchester, Yorkshire and Lancashire - so gets a mixture of all three accents.

Not only to me, tietie. To anyone with a rhotic accent.

Homophones for me, unless I'm talking about the place names, then I'd say Burry rather than Berry.

East Yorkshire born, live in North Yorkshire.

Only to you Broomstick! They're the same word to me!

Definitely not only to Broomstick.

I feel I actually need to hear someone pronounce "paw" and "poor" to understand how they could sound the same.

Is it poss to upload audio files to this site?

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pore

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/paw

No, tietie, and I asked DH last night, also Scottish but brought up about as far as you can get from me, and he agrees that psalm/Sam are homophones.
It's just a major difference in accent. See the loch/lock thread from earlier this month.

Can't see how Psalm and Sam are the same though!

Here in Bury St Edmunds I can tell you some of the older natives with broad Suffolk accents pronounce it Bairy.

To me they're both Berry.

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/psalm nothing like Sam

I'm from Yorkshire and bury and berry are different but it's raspbury and strawbury. In fact the way Julia Roberts says strawberry in Pretty Woman sounds weird to me.

VeryButchyRestingFace , check out DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen's first link.

The audio on that is how I say all four - paw, pour, pore and poor.

Also from Bury. Lost a lot of my accent but still say bury, hurry, curry, lorry, slurry to sound the same. If I consciously try to change it to not sound so 'Bury' they become berry, herry, kerry, lerry, slerry and I sound ridiculous. My dad was from Bolton so maybe it's his influence.

I live near Slaithwaite and it's not Slaw-it with the slaw as in coleslaw it's Slawit so sla-wit with a short a. If you're Huddersfield but not Slawit it's pronounced 'Sla' th-waite' but it's never 'Slay thwaite' never that one!

I'd rhyme Bury with berry too and not with curry which is a ugh sound. I would also say poor as poo-er and pour to rhyme with for. I can't even try and pronounce sam with psalm though. Love accents!