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

No I'd say that's probably near enough! It's a subtlety different sound than cow though. Difficult to describe without saying it!

I'm in Dublin and they are homophones to me.

That's good to know! I would have definitely said Slay-th-weight.

I'm in Yorkshire and it's a homophone. Not all Yorkshire folk have the same accent.

I'm Lancastrian and they are homophones to me.

I'm from the southeast and grew up a couple of miles from bury st Edmonds
Bury and berry are homophones to me
As are paw/poor/pour
Also pawn/porn sound the same to me
I live in lancs now and words like spare are pronounced spur by some people
They do like their long u sound

Burry and berry here. Lancashire lass.

Lancashire but a bit posh here - I would say they are not homophones, but that's because I would pronounce "berry" with an RP "e" sound, and Bury with an RP "u" sound, whereas a lot of local accents would pronounce "berry" with the same "u" from "Bury".

Northern Town Bury is a u sound, but Bury St Edmunds is an e sound.

West Yorkshire here. Very near to the Lancs border though

I would say Bury as burry and berry like merry.

So no, not homophones to me.

I do speak quite broad Yorkshire.

I'll go and ask DH - he hails from nearer to Leeds and we argue over the pronunciation of many words

I pronounce the town as burry ,as in hurry, and the fruit as berry to rhyme with merry.
I'm in Yorkshire.

Homophones for me too. I was born in a naice area of West Yorks and now live in N. Yorks. I have a fairly strong West Yorks accent.

RestingButch paw would be pronounced poor around here, poor would be pronounced pow-er (not like power, like poor with a w in it. Moor is pronounced similar).

Live in Bury - I say berry but there is a slight distinction that I can't quite explain than if I was talking about a small fruit... Reminds me of this picture though

I'm from Leeds and bury and berry do NOT sound the same when I say them.

As PP said, Bury sounds like hurry and berry sounds like merry!

Ugh, bury sounds like hurry but Bury (the place) would be Berry.

I love these threads! But I can't figure this one out! Those who they're homophones for - how do you pronounce both?

For me berry is "beh-ree" and bury is "buh-ray" - I'm scottish. Can't figure out how they'd sound if they were both pronounced the same

Yorkshire born and bred (York itself) Bury to rhyme with hurry but not when it's Bury St Edmund then it's berry. Just the way it is! Bradford pronounced with a 't' in the middle instead of D

Caoraich
It's berry/ bury to rhyme with merry/ very/ ferry/Derry

Not homophones in edinburgh

Berry is like merry xmas
Burry is like (Andy) Murray

Scottish here and they are distinctly non-homophonic.

I used to get mocked by my English colleagues for the way I pronounce "bury" and "furry" (basically they rhyme with Murray, but my "r"s are very rolly)

Hmm if I am saying Bury as in the place and strawberry then I pronounce them to rhyme with an 'uh' like hurry.
If I am saying bury the verb and saying berry on its own then I use an 'eh' like merry.

I also pronounce Slaithwaite - Slowit. Slow to rhyme with cow. Wrong then?

No, absolutely correct according to northern dh.

It's slow it, to rhyme with cow for Slathwaite.

I remember when there were terrible floods out that way a few years ago and the Prime Minister or similar was giving a speech in the Houses of Parliament doing all the 'we're all so sympathetic and doing everything we can for the people of Slaithwaite' and they were pronouncing it as it is spelt and you just knew that they had no idea where they were on about, where it was or how it was pronounced . I remember thinking, God help us if the flood spreads as far Mytholmroyd (nearby village for non locals).