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The pronunciation of "bury"

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2011-11-15 18:12:33 in General
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
See, I pronounce it like "burry" and some people have told me in the past that it's supposed to be pronounced like "berry".  What the heck?  Why would you do that?  Can't you see that that letter is a u and not an e?

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  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I've only ever heard it pronounced "berry".
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    I've only heard "berry".
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    >Implying English pronunciation makes any goddamn sense
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    You guys aware that ur and er are the same sound in some varieties of english?
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    I've heard "burry" occasionally, but yeah, "berry" is more common.

    That said, how do you pronounce Wednesday?
  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus
    I heard "burry" sometimes, but almost everyone says "berry". 
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Wait, is that why I can never figure out the spelling for the berry variety?
  • 707ruz707ruz
    "I will grant you two wishes; one for each testicle."
    I hear both. "burry" sounds more correct, but people still use "berry".

    ^^^ "when is day". Which leads me to forget to put the d in Wednesday when I usually spell it.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    I've almost always heard it as "berry". But the language is funny like that; Nyktos cites "Wednesday", and I cite "comfortable", which, while occasionally pronounced as it looks, is mostly warped.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-11-15 19:13:48
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Berry

    Wensday/Wendsday

    Comftable
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Forzare is right except for Comfortable. It's more like:

    Comfterble
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Yeah, actually, that's more like it.
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    I forced myself to start pronouncing "comfortable" as it is spelled, but I still say "Wenzday".
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-11-15 19:49:23
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    burry
    wensday
    comfurtuhbol
    offtun
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    I say burry, wensday, comftrbl (two syllables without a vowel sound FTW) and ofn.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Now the deal with Wednesday is that I've pretty heard no one ever use "wednussday", and it is very noticeably different from "wensday"--which is not the case with cumfurtuhble vs. cumf'tuhble or offun vs. oftun.

    And then you have Gloss-tur-shur vs. Glou-cess-tur-shire and such, which is mainly a way of hazing non-locals.
  • ViviVivi
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  • GelzoGelzo
    edited 2011-11-16 01:47:52
    Pony Sleuth
    The loss of the "d" in Wednesday is an example of a form of language change that is common for words that are often said in sequence. It's analogical change with an immediate model, which is jargon that means that those words change to sound more similar to each other.

    It's intuitive enough to understand. It's a lot easier to quickly say "Tuesday, Wensday, Thursday." than "Tuesday, WeDNesday, Thursday." The same thing happens with small numbers.

    There are actually quite a few examples in English and other languages, of a word's spelling staying the same long after it stopped being representative of how it is pronounced.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    If it's any consolation I always say "burry".
  • EvergreenEvergreen
    I say it more like "berry", sorry Glenn. And lord knows we have enough "-bury"s in our home state. Apparently in some system it's supposed to be pronounced "boro"? I don't even know...
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    ^ Glastonborough?  Waterborough?  Simsborough?
  • EvergreenEvergreen
    edited 2011-11-16 09:25:54
    I know right? I keep hearing "Oh, it was once pronounced 'Simsborough'". Or something. I can't remember, it might have just thing my mom heard secondhand.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    I sometimes say Wednesday instead of Wensday
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    I pronounce it "burry", which is the usual Northern English pronunciation, but you have to remember that someone from Yorkshire saying that sounds different to an American saying it anyway.


    Standard British English, though, is "berry". That's how most people from London and the South would pronounce the word.


    I also say Wednesday as "Wensday". Pronouncing all the syllables is something you would probably only get with someone speaking in a very formal, correct way, like a BBC announcer.

  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    "correct way"

    Bitch don't get me started on prescriptivism.
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    ^ Oh, alright, "a very formal, "correct" way", if you prefer.


    Bitches don't know about your anti-prescriptivism?

  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Fair enough. This checks out.

    It's just that I'd like people in general to be more aware of how arbitrary notions of a standard use of language can be. Judgements of people based on their dialect/accent seem to me to be sort of like another form of bigotry that a lot more people are susceptible to since it's one that's less obvious.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ^ Only a person with a clearly inferior dialect and thus intelligence would say that!
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