Have I been saying this football team wrong all my life?

[Juan Albion]

Bury FC that is.

I've always pronounced it the same as "Berry" but I've just been watching the "accidental goal" incident on the Bury FC player and he clearly pronounces it Burry, to rhyme with flurry. Have I been wrong all these years or is it an ignorant commentator?

 

[Creaky]

Pronounced Burry - at least that was how people pronounced it when I lived in Manchester.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Bureh.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Yep. Burry.

Incidentally ... Berwick in East Sussex is correctly pronounced "Bur-wick".

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Bury FC that is.

I've always pronounced it the same as "Berry" but I've just been watching the "accidental goal" incident on the Bury FC player and he clearly pronounces it Burry, to rhyme with flurry. Have I been wrong all these years or is it an ignorant commentator?

It would appear you are in good company. Well mine anyway
just so we can establish relative ignorance - I'm 45

 

[GT49er]

Bury FC that is.

I've always pronounced it the same as "Berry" but I've just been watching the "accidental goal" incident on the Bury FC player and he clearly pronounces it Burry, to rhyme with flurry. Have I been wrong all these years or is it an ignorant commentator?

It's the local accent. 'Bury' (as in 'Berry') is fine, but in the local dialect it becomes more like 'Burr-ee'.

 

[GT49er]

Yep. Burry.

Incidentally ... Berwick in East Sussex is correctly pronounced "Bur-wick".

Really? I lived in Polegate for a few years, and never heard it pronounced anything other than 'Berrick'.

 

[Eeyore]

Ah, but is it 'Shrewsberry' or 'Shrowsburry' ?

 

[Baldseagull]

It's just your accent, if I go to the French capital, I tell people I am going to Paris, the locals say Paree, but they don't talk proper like what I do.

 

[METALMICKY]

When I was at secondary school in the late 70's I'm sure we pronounced ADIDAS as ' A DEE DUS' and then
In more recent times it seemed to change to ' A DEE DAS'.

Not forgetting the schoolboy jolly jape when you hijacked someone's sports. Bag and filled the gaps with All Day I Dream About Sex

 

[Superphil]

Bury FC that is.

I've always pronounced it the same as "Berry" but I've just been watching the "accidental goal" incident on the Bury FC player and he clearly pronounces it Burry, to rhyme with flurry. Have I been wrong all these years or is it an ignorant commentator?

Always Burray for me when referring to our Sussex village, I think that's the correct way to say it.

Ah, but is it 'Shrewsberry' or 'Shrowsburry' ?

it's been said to me; it's a Shrew, so it's Shrewsbury, it isn't a Schrow. G

 

[Juan Albion]

When I was at secondary school in the late 70's I'm sure we pronounced ADIDAS as ' A DEE DUS' and then
In more recent times it seemed to change to ' A DEE DAS'.

Pretty sure it should be Addy Dass anyway, after Adi Dassler the founder.

 

[Seagull]

Ah, but is it 'Shrewsberry' or 'Shrowsburry' ?

I stayed in Shrewsbury a couple of years ago & the man in the hotel said that everyone in Shrewsbury calls it Shroosebury but that outsiders "trying to be posh" call it Shrosebury.

 

[ArfurW8]

I once knew somebody with the surname Sidebottom, he liked it pronounced Siddy bottam, ( the am rhyming with ham).
Mind you he was a pompous ass.

 

[hitony]

It's BERRY.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Not forgetting the schoolboy jolly jape when you hijacked someone's sports. Bag and filled the gaps with All Day I Dream About Sex

After Dinner I Did A Shit

c Essex Comprehensive 1979

 

[Medwayseagull]

Where is Hyacinth when you need her ?

 

[portlock seagull]

Regional accents play havoc with pronounciation. Take for example this one. In Surrey they say "Palace" where as in Sussex we stress the second syllable and pronounce as "scum"

 

[sully]

I'm sure the locals would say blackberry much the same as they pronounce Bury, so it's berry for me.

 

[HHGull]

Another local one - Offham. Off-ham or Oaf-ham. The residents opt for the latter I think, but I always thought it was Off-ham.